Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 8
I can see and hear," it thought; "the sun shines upon me, and the forest kisses me.
Who acts: I, daisy, sun, forest · What happens: see, hear, think, shine, kiss · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daisy, sun, forest), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hear | cc |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 shines | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shines | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shines | nsubj |
| 14 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shines | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kisses | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kisses | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kisses | nsubj |
| 21 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shines | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 kisses | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | infinitive | I not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | daisy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shine | present | the sun | upon me | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location | ||||
| 5 | kiss | present | the forest | me | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-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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