Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 21
In Paradise, when thou wert born in the first rose, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, thou receivedst a kiss, and thy right name was given thee--thy name, Poetry.
Who acts: thou, thy · What happens: bear, receive, give, name · To what, where: thou, Paradise, kiss, right name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, thy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Paradise | case |
| 2 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Paradise | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 born | advmod |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | wert | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rose | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rose | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 rose | amod |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tree | punct |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 Tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tree | det |
| 15 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Knowledge | case |
| 17 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tree | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 receivedst | punct |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 receivedst | nsubj |
| 20 | receivedst | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Tree | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 kiss | det |
| 22 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receivedst | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 given | cc |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 name | amod |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 given | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux:pass |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 born | conj |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 given | obj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 given | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Poetry | punct |
| 35 | Poetry | Poetry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 name | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | thou | Paradise | in the first rose; beneath the Tree of Knowledge | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | receive | past | thou | a kiss | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | thy right name | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | name | thy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | thy | nom name «communication 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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