Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 30
From the almshouse window, behind the balsams, thou shalt look on the merry children at play, and shalt see thine own history renewed."
Who acts: thou, own history · What happens: look, see, renew · To what, where: own history
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 (thou, own history), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 window | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 3 | almshouse | almshouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 window | compound |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 balsams | punct |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 balsams | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 balsams | det |
| 8 | balsams | balsam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 window | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 window | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 play | case |
| 18 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 21 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 look | conj |
| 23 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 history | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 history | amod |
| 25 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 26 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 see | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | shall | thou | on the merry children; at play; from the almshouse window and the balsams | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | shall | thou not said here | thine own history | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | renew | participle | thine own history not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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