Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 63
I know every house, every balcony, every shop in this narrow cut-off corner, where I am denied the sight of this great mighty city.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, deny, sight · To what, where: house, narrow off corner, I, great mighty city
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 balcony | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 balcony | det |
| 7 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shop | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 shop | det |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 corner | nsubj |
| 13 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 corner | amod |
| 14 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 off | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 cut | punct |
| 16 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corner | compound |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 denied | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 denied | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 denied | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 denied | aux:pass |
| 22 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 corner | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 denied | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 city | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 city | nsubj |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 city | amod |
| 28 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 city | amod |
| 29 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | every house and every balcony and every shop | narrow off corner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | deny | present · passive | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme sight=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sight | great mighty city | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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