Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 70
Have an ear to hear and the right heart to feel, and you will soon invent something.
Who acts: you, right heart · What happens: have, hear, feel, invent · To what, where: ear, right heart, something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, right heart), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ear | det |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ear | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heart | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 feel | mark |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 invent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 invent | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 invent | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 invent | aux |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 invent | advmod |
| 17 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 invent | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | a ear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | you not said here | the right heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | the right heart not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | invent | future | you | something | soon property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result |
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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