Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 117

Come gentle sun, while the cuckoo sings, And I'll mock his note in my wanderings."

Who acts: you, cuckoo, I, my · What happens: come, sing, mock, note, wander · To what, where: gentle sun, note, wanderings

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 (you, cuckoo, 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sun	amod
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sings	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 sings	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cuckoo	det
7	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sings	nsubj
8	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mock	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 mock	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 mock	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 mock	aux
13	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sings	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 note	nmod:poss
15	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mock	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wanderings	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wanderings	nmod:poss
18	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mock	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	gentle sun		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme
2	sing speech: express	present	the cuckoo			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mock	future	I	cuckoo's note	my wanderings	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
4	note		cuckoo			nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	wander		my			nom wandering «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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