Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 7
She thought she heard the stories of the old clergyman, of great deeds, and of the celebrated names, and of the gifts that the creatures of God must bestow upon posterity, if they would live on in the world.
Who acts: Dryad, creatures · What happens: think, hear, celebrate, bestow, live, name · To what, where: stories, gifts, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dryad, creatures), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 clergyman | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clergyman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clergyman | amod |
| 10 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deeds | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 deeds | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deeds | amod |
| 14 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 names | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 names | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 names | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 names | det |
| 19 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 names | amod |
| 20 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gifts | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gifts | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gifts | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gifts | det |
| 25 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 names | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 bestow | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 creatures | det |
| 28 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bestow | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 God | case |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 creatures | nmod |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 bestow | aux |
| 32 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 gifts | acl:relcl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 posterity | case |
| 34 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bestow | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 live | punct |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 live | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 live | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 live | aux |
| 39 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 bestow | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 live | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Dryad | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | Dryad | the stories of the old clergyman | of great deeds; of the celebrated names of the gifts | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bestow | must | the creatures of God | the gifts | upon posterity | tree rules | |||
| 5 | live a condition, not said to happen | would | creatures = creature | the world | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on world=Location | ||||
| 6 | name | the gifts | nom name «communication 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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