Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 11
Ah, I have cured him of staring, though; now he may hang up there, and shine, that I may see myself.
Who acts: I, Man · What happens: cure, stare, hang up, see · To what, where: Man, shine, myself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Man), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cured | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cured | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cured | aux |
| 5 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cured | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 staring | mark |
| 8 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cured | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 though | punct |
| 10 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 staring | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hang | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hang | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hang | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hang | aux |
| 15 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cured | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 hang | compound:prt |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hang | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shine | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shine | cc |
| 20 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hang | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hang | conj |
| 26 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present · perfect | I | Man | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | I not said here | though property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang up | may | Man | shine | there | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | see | may | I | myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |
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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