Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 221
I lacked strength, and strength thou didst not give me.
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: lack, not do, give · To what, where: strength, me
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), 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 lacked | nsubj |
| 2 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lacked | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 strength | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 strength | cc |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lacked | obj |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 didst | nsubj |
| 8 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strength | acl:relcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 didst | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 didst | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lack | past | I | strength | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | past | thou | strength not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | thou not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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