Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 122
"Will you each remember to say, whatever may happen, 'My brother is a part of myself; his secret is my secret, my happiness is his; self-sacrifice, patience, everything belongs to me as they do to him?'"
Who acts: you, whatever, brother, secret, happiness, everything · What happens: remember, say, happen, be, belong, do · To what, where: part, secret, self sacrifice, me, Brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whatever, brother, secret), 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 | _ | 5 remember | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remember | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happen | punct |
| 9 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 happen | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 happen | aux |
| 11 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 part | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happen | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 myself | case |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 part | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 secret | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 secret | nmod:poss |
| 23 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 secret | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 secret | cop |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 secret | nmod:poss |
| 26 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sacrifice | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 29 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 sacrifice | cop |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sacrifice | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 sacrifice | punct |
| 33 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sacrifice | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 self | punct |
| 35 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 secret | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 patience | punct |
| 37 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sacrifice | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 belongs | punct |
| 39 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 belongs | nsubj |
| 40 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 me | case |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 belongs | obl |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 do | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 do | nsubj |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 belongs | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 do | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | future | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | may | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | My brother | a part | of myself | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Brother's secret | my secret | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | my happiness | Brother's self sacrifice and patience | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | belong in a quote | present | everything | me | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | present | sacrifice | Brother | vn act-114-1 «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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