Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 73
I will gleam like the cloud, gleam in the sunshine of life, look out over the whole like the cloud, and pass away like it, no one knoweth whither."
Who acts: I, one · What happens: gleam, look out, pass away, know
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, one), 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 | 3 gleam | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 gleam | aux |
| 3 | gleam | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cloud | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloud | det |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gleam | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gleam | punct |
| 8 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloud | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sunshine | det |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gleam | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sunshine | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gleam | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 look | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 whole | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 whole | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | xcomp |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 cloud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cloud | det |
| 22 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whole | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pass | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pass | cc |
| 25 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gleam | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 pass | advmod |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pass | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knoweth | punct |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 knoweth | nsubj |
| 32 | knoweth | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pass | conj |
| 33 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 knoweth | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gleam | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gleam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | future | I | like the cloud and gleam in the sunshine of life | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | look out | infinitive | I not said here | out, whole property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass away | infinitive | like life; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | know | present | no one | whither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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