Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 100
"Well, then I would certainly take Martin, for that is what my heart tells me; but one cannot live upon love."
Who acts: thought, that, heart, one · What happens: take, be, tell, not live · To what, where: Martin, thought, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, that, heart, one), 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 | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 take | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Martin | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 what | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tells | nsubj |
| 17 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tells | iobj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 live | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 live | cc |
| 21 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 live | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 live | advmod |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | would | thought | Martin | then | certainly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument martin=Destination | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | my heart | thought | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not live in a quote | can | one | love | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon love=Location |
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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