Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 53
When I could watch thy infant glee, Or kiss away a pearly tear. '
Who acts: I · What happens: watch, kiss away · To what, where: infant glee, pearly tear
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 watch | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 watch | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 watch | aux |
| 4 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 glee | nmod:poss |
| 6 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glee | amod |
| 7 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watch | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kiss | punct |
| 9 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 kiss | cc |
| 10 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 watch | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 kiss | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tear | det |
| 13 | pearly | pearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tear | amod |
| 14 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kiss | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watch | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | could | I | thy infant glee | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glee=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss away | infinitive | I not said here | a pearly tear | away property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Co-Agent |
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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