Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 25
"Rejoice in thy youth," said the sunbeam; "rejoice in thy fresh growth, and the young life that is in thee."
Who acts: sunbeam, young life, thy · What happens: rejoice, say, be, grow · To what, where: youth, fresh growth, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam, young life, 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 | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 2 | Rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 youth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rejoice | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sunbeam | det |
| 10 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 13 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 growth | case |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 growth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 growth | amod |
| 17 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoice | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thee | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thee | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 life | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thee | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 thee | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thee | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 rejoice | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice in a quote | infinitive | thy youth | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sunbeam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rejoice in a quote | infinitive | thy fresh growth | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the young life | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow in a quote | thy | nom growth «process 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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