Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 121

"I heard him as he thus spoke; he was looking at a spider's web, and he continued, 'Thou cunning little weaver, thou dost teach me perseverance.

Who acts: window, Easter, Thou · What happens: hear, speak, look, continue, weaver, do · To what, where: Easter, perseverance, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, Easter, Thou), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 spoke	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoke	nsubj
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 spoke	advmod
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looking	aux
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 web	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spider	det
15	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 web	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 spider	case
17	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 continued	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 continued	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 continued	nsubj
21	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weaver	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 weaver	punct
24	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 weaver	nsubj
25	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 weaver	amod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 weaver	amod
27	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 continued	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dost	punct
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 dost	nsubj
30	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	parataxis
31	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dost	xcomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 teach	obj
33	perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 teach	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	window	Easter			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other in a quote	past	Easter			thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look in a quote	past · progressive	Easter			at a spider's web	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at web=Theme
4	continue in a quote	past	Easter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	weaver in a quote		Thou				tree rules
6	do in a quote	present	thou				tree rules
7	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here	perseverance	window		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient perseverance=Topic

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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