Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 52
"How oft my memory turns to thee, My own Hjalmar, ever dear!
Who acts: memory · What happens: turn · To what, where: oft, thee
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 (memory), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 oft | advmod |
| 3 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turns | obj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 memory | nmod:poss |
| 5 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turns | nsubj |
| 6 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 turns | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hjalmar | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Hjalmar | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Hjalmar | amod |
| 12 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thee | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 dear | advmod |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turns | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | present | my memory | oft | thee | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent oft=Theme to thou=Trajectory |
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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