Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 59
He spoke just as well as I do, when I speak the crows' language, so I heard from my tame sweetheart.
Who acts: Kay, I · What happens: speak, do, hear · To what, where: language, tame sweetheart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 well | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crows | det |
| 14 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 language | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 crows | case |
| 16 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speak | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 heard | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 sweetheart | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sweetheart | amod |
| 24 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Kay | well property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | I | the crows's language | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | I | my tame sweetheart | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sweetheart=Source |
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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