Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 17
My memory keeps dwelling upon that, and I have really nothing else to live for!'
Who acts: memory, I · What happens: keep, dwell, have, live · To what, where: that, nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memory, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 memory | nmod:poss |
| 2 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dwelling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeps | parataxis |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 nothing | advmod |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 nothing | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 live | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | My memory | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dwell | gerund | My memory not said here | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon that=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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