Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 215
"I can confide my griefs to none.
Who acts: monk · What happens: confide · To what, where: griefs, none
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 (monk), 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 | _ | 4 confide | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 confide | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 confide | aux |
| 4 | confide | confide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 griefs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | griefs | grief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confide | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 none | case |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 confide | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confide speech: other in a quote | can | the monk = monk | my griefs | none | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grief=Topic to none=Recipient |
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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