Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 51
Each time I think that the song is ended; and then something higher and better begins for me.
Who acts: I, something · What happens: think, end, begin · To what, where: song · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, something), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 ended | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 song | det |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ended | aux:pass |
| 9 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 begins | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 something | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 something | advmod |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 begins | nsubj |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 something | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 better | cc |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 higher | conj |
| 17 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 begins | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | present · passive | the song | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | begin | present | something | for me | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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