Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 43
"Rich and prospering in every respect," he said; "the woman is brave and good, but you are in my heart.
Who acts: God, woman, you · What happens: prosper, say, be · To what, where: respect, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God, woman, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rich | punct |
| 2 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 prospering | cc |
| 4 | prospering | prosper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Rich | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 respect | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 respect | det |
| 7 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prospering | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rich | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rich | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brave | cop |
| 17 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 good | cc |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brave | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heart | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 heart | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 heart | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prosper in a quote | gerund | God not said here | every respect | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in respect=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the woman | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | my heart | tree rules |
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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