Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 13
You give the fluid that I may place upon the paper what dwells in me, and what I wish to bring to light.
Who acts: You, fluid, I · What happens: give, place, wish, bring · To what, where: fluid, dwells, light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fluid, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fluid | det |
| 4 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 place | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 place | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | aux |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fluid | acl:relcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 paper | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 paper | det |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 paper | conj |
| 13 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 what | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dwells | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wish | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wish | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 wish | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dwells | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bring | mark |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 light | case |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | You | the fluid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | may | the fluid | upon the paper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | I | dwells in me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | light | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to light=Destination |
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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