Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 130

"While young, I can wander without a care, And build new houses everywhere; Fair and bright are my dreams of home, Always thought of wherever I roam.

Who acts: Margaret, Always · What happens: wander, build, be, think, roam · To what, where: new houses, Fair dreams

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Margaret, Always), 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	_	7 wander	punct
2	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 young	mark
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wander	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 young	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wander	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wander	aux
7	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	without	without	ADP	_	10 care	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 care	det
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wander	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 build	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 build	cc
13	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wander	conj
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 houses	amod
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 build	obj
16	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 build	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 dreams	punct
18	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dreams	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bright	cc
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fair	conj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dreams	cop
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dreams	nmod:poss
23	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wander	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 home	case
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dreams	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
27	Always	Always	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dreams	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 wherever	case
30	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	28 thought	ccomp
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 roam	nsubj
32	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wherever	advcl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wander	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wander in a quote	can	Margaret		without a care	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build in a quote	present	Margaret not said here	new houses	everywhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
3	is a in a quote	present		my Fair dreams	of home	tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	Always			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	roam in a quote	present	Margaret			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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