Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 34
"Thou wouldst gladly go down and be with thy child," said a voice quite close to her,--a voice that sounded so deep and clear, that it went to her heart.
Who acts: Thou, voice, child · What happens: go down, be, say, sound, go · To what, where: heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, voice, child), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 child | cc |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 child | cop |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 child | nmod:poss |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 close | advmod |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 close | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 voice | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 voice | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 voice | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sounded | nsubj |
| 26 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 voice | acl:relcl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 deep | advmod |
| 28 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sounded | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clear | cc |
| 30 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deep | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 went | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sounded | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 heart | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | would | Thou | down, gladly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | Thou not said here | with thy child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a voice and a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sound | past | a voice | deep property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | past | child | word's heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_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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