Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 13
She could never have the heart, he thought, to send him a ticket to go and see it, if it had been real.
Who acts: wife, Knud, ticket · What happens: not have, think, send, go, see, be · To what, where: heart, ticket, Knud · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Knud, ticket), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 send | mark |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 send | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ticket | det |
| 15 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ticket | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 real | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 real | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 real | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 real | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 real | cop |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 send | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | could | wife | the heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Knud | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | a ticket | Knud | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ticket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | a ticket not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | ticket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | ticket | real property | tree rules |
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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