Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 22
I keep it in my diary, in which I write for my own use and pleasure a history of all who lie here, and a few more beside.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: keep, write, pleasure, lie, use · To what, where: deal, diary, history
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 keep | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 diary | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 diary | nmod:poss |
| 6 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 write | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 write | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 write | nsubj |
| 11 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keep | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 use | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 use | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 use | amod |
| 15 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 write | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pleasure | cc |
| 17 | pleasure | pleasure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 write | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 history | det |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pleasure | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 history | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lie | nsubj |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lie | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 more | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 more | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 few | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 keep | conj |
| 30 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 29 more | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | I | deal | my diary | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in diary=Location | |||
| 2 | write | present | I | for my own use | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pleasure | infinitive | I not said here | a history of all | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie | present | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | use | my | nom use «act 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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