Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 39
The rich widow over the way in the basement has made advances to me; she will make me rich, but you are in my heart; what do you advise me to do?"
Who acts: rich widow, widow, you, heart · What happens: have, make, be, advise, do · To what, where: made advances, me, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich widow, widow, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 widow | amod |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 widow | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 basement | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 basement | det |
| 9 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 advances | amod |
| 12 | advances | advance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 advances | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 has | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 heart | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 heart | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 heart | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | parataxis |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 advise | punct |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 advise | obj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 advise | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 advise | nsubj |
| 32 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 heart | parataxis |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 advise | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 advise | xcomp |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 heart | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the rich widow over the way in the basement | made advances | to me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | make | future | widow | me | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | |||
| 4 | is | present | you | my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | present · do-support | you | my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | my heart not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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