Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 220
I threw away the gift thou hadst vouchsafed to me, I left my mission unfulfilled.
Who acts: I, thou, gift, mission · What happens: throw away, have, vouchsafe, leave, unfulfill · To what, where: gift, me, mission
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 (I, thou, gift, mission), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 threw | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hadst | nsubj |
| 7 | hadst | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gift | acl:relcl |
| 8 | vouchsafed | vouchsafe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hadst | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 vouchsafed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mission | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | unfulfilled | unfulfill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 left | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | I | the gift | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | thou | the gift not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vouchsafe | participle | the gift not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | I | my mission | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | unfulfill | participle | my mission not said here | 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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