Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 27
"Yes," replied the thorn-bush; "but I will not tell you which way he has taken until you have warmed me in your bosom.
Who acts: thorn bush, length, you, your · What happens: reply, not tell, take, warm, bosom · To what, where: way, you, thorn bush, bosom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorn bush, length, you, your), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 7 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bush | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 thorn | punct |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | advmod |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 warmed | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 warmed | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 warmed | aux |
| 26 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 taken | advcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 warmed | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bosom | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 warmed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the thorn bush | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the thorn bush = bush | which way | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | present · perfect | length | which way not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | warm in a quote | present · perfect | you | the thorn bush = bush | your bosom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 5 | bosom in a quote | your | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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