Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 207

Thou actest like the great calm ocean, that beckons us, and fills us with expectation--and when we embark upon thee, we sink, disappear, and cease to be.

Who acts: Thou, great calm ocean, we · What happens: act, beckon, fill, embark, sink, disappear · To what, where: us

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 (Thou, great calm ocean, we), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 actest	nsubj
2	actest	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ocean	amod
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ocean	amod
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 actest	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beckons	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 beckons	nsubj
10	beckons	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ocean	acl:relcl
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 beckons	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fills	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fills	cc
14	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 beckons	conj
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fills	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 expectation	case
17	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fills	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 sink	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sink	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 embark	advmod
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 embark	nsubj
22	embark	embark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sink	advcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 thee	case
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 embark	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 embark	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sink	nsubj
27	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 actest	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 disappear	punct
29	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sink	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cease	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cease	cc
32	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 actest	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 be	mark
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 cease	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 actest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	present	Thou		like the great calm ocean	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like ocean=Attribute
2	beckon	present	the great calm ocean	us		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
3	fill	present	the great calm ocean not said here	us	with expectation	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent we=Patient with expectation=Instrument
4	embark	present	we		upon thee	tree rules
5	sink	present	we			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	disappear	present	we not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cease	infinitive	Thou not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
8	be	to-infinitive	Thou not said here			vn exist-47.1 «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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