Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 28
"'Yes,' I replied; 'for I am welcomed in every town, when I arrive with my company; but I certainly have one wish which sometimes weighs upon my cheerful temper like a mountain of lead.
Who acts: series, one wish, my · What happens: reply, welcome, arrive, have, weigh, temper · To what, where: series, town, one wish
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (series, one wish, my), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 replied | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 welcomed | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 welcomed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 welcomed | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 13 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 welcomed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arrive | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 arrive | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 arrive | nsubj |
| 20 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 town | acl:relcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 company | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 company | nmod:poss |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrive | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 28 have | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 wish | nummod |
| 30 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 weighs | nsubj |
| 32 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 weighs | advmod |
| 33 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 wish | acl:relcl |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 temper | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 temper | nmod:poss |
| 36 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 temper | amod |
| 37 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 weighs | obl |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 mountain | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mountain | det |
| 40 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 weighs | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 lead | case |
| 42 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mountain | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | series | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | welcome in a quote | present · passive | series | every town | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 3 | arrive in a quote | present | series | with my company | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | series | one wish | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 5 | weigh in a quote | present | one wish | upon my cheerful temper; like a mountain of lead; sometimes property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | temper in a quote | my | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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