Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 205
But thou canst not return to earth, and I can do nothing for thee."
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: not return, do · To what, where: nothing
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 (thou, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 return | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 return | nsubj |
| 3 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 return | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 return | advmod |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 return | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | can | thou | to earth result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | nothing | for thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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