Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 25
"Fly with me," sang a voice, which the boy heard in his heart.
Who acts: voice, boy · What happens: fly, sing, hear · To what, where: voice, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, boy), 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 | _ | 2 Fly | punct |
| 2 | Fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sang | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Fly | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fly | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | infinitive | with a voice = voice | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | a voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | the boy | a voice | star's heart | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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