Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 14
Play on, play on, thou little maiden!
Who acts: you · What happens: play on
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Play | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Play | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 play | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 maiden | nsubj |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Play | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play on | imperative | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | play on | infinitive | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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