Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 54

Twas in my arms thy lisping tongue First spoke the half-remembered word, While o'er thy tottering steps I hung, My fond protection to afford.

Who acts: Twas, I, thy, My · What happens: speak, remember, totter, hang, afford, step · To what, where: remembered word, fond protection · 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 (Twas, I, thy, My), 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	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spoke	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 arms	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arms	nmod:poss
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Twas	nmod
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 tongue	nmod:poss
6	lisping	lisping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tongue	compound
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arms	nmod
8	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 spoke	advmod
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 word	det
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 remembered	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 word	amod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoke	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
16	While	while	SCONJ	_	22 hung	mark
17	o'er	o'er	ADP	_	20 steps	case
18	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 steps	nmod:poss
19	tottering	totter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 steps	amod
20	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hung	nsubj
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spoke	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 protection	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 protection	nmod:poss
25	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 protection	amod
26	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 afford	mark
28	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 protection	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Twas in my arms thy lisping tongue	the remembered word	first property	tree rules
2	remember	participle				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	totter	gerund				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hang	past	I	My fond protection	o'er thy tottering steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	afford	to-infinitive	I not said here	My fond protection not said here		tree rules
6	step		thy			nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	protect		My			nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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