Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 34
You think the history of their lives and their silent love, which never came to anything, very remarkable; and there they are for you."
Who acts: You, silent love, thoughts · What happens: think, not come, be, love · To what, where: history, anything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, silent love, thoughts), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 history | det |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lives | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lives | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 history | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 love | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 love | nmod:poss |
| 10 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 love | amod |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 came | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 came | advmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 love | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 anything | case |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remarkable | punct |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 remarkable | advmod |
| 20 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 anything | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 are | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 are | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 are | expl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 are | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 are | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | You | the history of thoughts's lives and thoughts's silent love | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot history=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not come | past | thoughts's silent love | anything | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to anything=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | does | present | thoughts = thought | there | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | love | thoughts = thought | nom love «feeling 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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