Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 60
The first word you utter will pierce through the hearts of your brothers like a deadly dagger.
Who acts: you, first word · What happens: utter, pierce · To what, where: first word
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (you, first word), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pierce | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 utter | nsubj |
| 5 | utter | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 word | acl:relcl |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pierce | aux |
| 7 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 hearts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hearts | det |
| 10 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pierce | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brothers | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hearts | nmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 dagger | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dagger | det |
| 16 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dagger | amod |
| 17 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brothers | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pierce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | present | you | the first word not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pierce | future | the first word | through the hearts of your brothers like a deadly dagger | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through heart=Patient |
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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