Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 78
Thanks for your lessons, bright rolling waves; my heart tells me you will lead me to my dear brothers."
Who acts: heart, you · What happens: roll, tell, lead · To what, where: me, dear brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (heart, you), 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 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 lessons | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lessons | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thanks | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waves | punct |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waves | amod |
| 7 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 waves | amod |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lessons | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Thanks | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tells | iobj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 lead | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lead | aux |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tells | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lead | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brothers | amod |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lead | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thanks | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thanks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | my heart | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lead | future | you | me | my dear brothers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to brother=Destination |
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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