Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 179
I have visited the noblest houses, and continue to do so; still I know how to conduct myself both to high and low, and now you may tell the stories yourself:" and so Ole-Luk-Oie walked off, taking his umbrellas with him.
Who acts: I, you, Ole · What happens: visit, continue, do, know, conduct, tell · To what, where: noblest houses, myself, high, stories, yourself, umbrellas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Ole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 visited | aux |
| 3 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 houses | det |
| 5 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 houses | amod |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 visited | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 continue | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 continue | cc |
| 9 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 visited | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 continue | xcomp |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 visited | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 conduct | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 conduct | mark |
| 19 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 conduct | obj |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 myself | appos |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 high | case |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 conduct | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 low | cc |
| 25 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 high | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tell | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tell | cc |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 tell | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 tell | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 tell | aux |
| 31 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 conduct | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stories | det |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tell | obj |
| 34 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 tell | iobj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 walked | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 walked | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 walked | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 walked | advmod |
| 39 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 walked | nsubj |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Luk | punct |
| 41 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ole | conj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Oie | punct |
| 43 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ole | conj |
| 44 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 visited | conj |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 walked | compound:prt |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 taking | punct |
| 47 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 walked | advcl |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 umbrellas | nmod:poss |
| 49 | umbrellas | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 taking | obj |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 taking | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present · perfect | I | the noblest houses | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | continue | infinitive | I not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | present | I | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | conduct | to-infinitive | myself | high | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to high=Destination | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | may | you | the stories | yourself | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 7 | walk off in a quote | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | take in a quote | gerund | Ole and Luk and Oie not said here | Ole's umbrellas | with Ole | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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