Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 132
There's a loved one at home who thinks of me; Home and friends I can ne'er forget, And I mean to be a master yet."
Who acts: loved one, I · What happens: be, love, think, forget, mean · To what, where: Home, friends, master
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 (loved one, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 thinks | nsubj |
| 9 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 thinks | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Home | punct |
| 13 | Home | Home | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 's | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 friends | cc |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Home | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 forget | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 forget | aux |
| 18 | ne'er | ne'er | ADV | _ | 19 forget | advmod |
| 19 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 friends | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mean | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mean | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 mean | nsubj |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 master | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 master | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 master | det |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mean | xcomp |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 mean | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a loved one at home | Home and friends | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | a loved one at home | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | forget | can | I | friends not said here | ne'er property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mean | present | I | yet | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a master | tree rules |
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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