Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 17
"'You are a dreamer,' they went on to say to him, 'and that's your misfortune.
Who acts: You, friends, that · What happens: be, go on, say · To what, where: dreamer, art, misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, friends, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreamer | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 dreamer | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dreamer | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dreamer | det |
| 6 | dreamer | dreamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreamer | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreamer | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 say | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 misfortune | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 misfortune | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 misfortune | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 22 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a dreamer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | past | friends = friend | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | art | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | your misfortune | tree rules |
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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