Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 9
"Thy wishing and thy longing have torn thee, with thy roots, from the place which God appointed for thee.
Who acts: wishing, place, Thy · What happens: tear, appoint, wish, long · To what, where: thee
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 (wishing, place, Thy), 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 | _ | 8 torn | punct |
| 2 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 wishing | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torn | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 longing | cc |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 longing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wishing | conj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 torn | aux |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 torn | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roots | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 roots | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 roots | nmod:poss |
| 13 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roots | appos |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 appointed | nsubj |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 appointed | nsubj |
| 20 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 appointed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear in a quote | present · perfect | Thy wishing and thy longing | thee | with thy roots | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with root=Instrument | |||
| 2 | appoint in a quote | past | the place | for thee | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | Thy | nom wishing «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | long in a quote | thy | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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