Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 18

He'll sit at your ear and whisper merry thoughts to you; he'll creep into your heart and warm you, so that you grow very merry, and become a wit, so far as the wits of the others can judge.

Who acts: child, you · What happens: sit, whisper, creep, warm, grow, become · To what, where: ear, merry thoughts, you, heart, wit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whisper	cc
8	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	conj
9	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thoughts	amod
10	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 whisper	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 whisper	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 creep	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 creep	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 creep	aux
16	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 heart	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heart	nmod:poss
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 creep	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 warm	cc
21	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 creep	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 warm	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grow	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 grow	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 grow	nsubj
27	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 warm	advcl
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 merry	advmod
29	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grow	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 become	cc
32	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wit	det
34	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 become	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 far	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 far	advmod
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 judge	advmod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 wits	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wits	det
40	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 far	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 others	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 others	det
43	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 wits	nmod
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 judge	aux
45	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	future	child			your ear		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ear=Location
2	whisper speech: assert	present	child not said here	merry thoughts	you			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Topic to you=Recipient
3	creep	future	child			your heart		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heart=Destination
4	warm	infinitive	child not said here	you				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	grow	present	you				merry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	become	infinitive		a wit				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	judge	can	child not said here				far property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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