Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 31
"I will hope that I may keep my old thoughts, the father in the mill, and the mother, great ones and little ones--the family; for I call them all, great and little, the company of thoughts, because I must, and cannot refrain from it.
Who acts: youngest, my · What happens: hope, keep, call, not refrain, think · To what, where: mother, old thoughts, mill, thoughts, company · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, my), 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 | _ | 4 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | aux |
| 4 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 keep | aux |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thoughts | amod |
| 11 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thoughts | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mill | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mill | det |
| 17 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mother | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mother | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mother | det |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hope | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ones | punct |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mother | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ones | cc |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ones | amod |
| 27 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mother | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 family | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 family | det |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mother | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 call | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 call | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 call | nsubj |
| 34 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | parataxis |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 call | obj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 great | punct |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 call | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 little | cc |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 great | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 company | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 company | det |
| 43 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 call | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 thoughts | case |
| 45 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 company | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 must | punct |
| 47 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 49 must | mark |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 must | nsubj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 call | advcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 refrain | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 refrain | cc |
| 52 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 refrain | aux |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 54 refrain | advmod |
| 54 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hope | conj |
| 55 | from | from | ADP | _ | 56 it | case |
| 56 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 refrain | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | future | the youngest = young | the mother and great ones and little ones and the family | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | may | the youngest = young | my old thoughts and the father | the mill | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thought=Theme in mill=Location | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | the youngest = young | thoughts = thought | the company of thoughts obl; great property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 4 | not refrain in a quote | can | the youngest = young not said here | company | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | think in a quote | my | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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