Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 4
Yes, I will speak to her; nothing comes from silent love.
Who acts: I, nothing · What happens: speak, come · To what, where: wife, silent love · 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 (I, nothing), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 speak | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 speak | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 12 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 love | amod |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | future | I | wife | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | nothing | silent love | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from love=Initial_Location |
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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