Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 144
"Thou wilt ever spring living from the earth," she said mournfully. "
Who acts: Thou, weariness · What happens: spring, live, say · To what, where: earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, weariness), 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 | _ | 5 spring | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 spring | nsubj |
| 3 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 spring | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 spring | advmod |
| 5 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spring | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spring | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spring | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring in a quote | future | Thou | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | Thou not said here | the earth | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | weariness | mournfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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