Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 141
Brother, think of this; I have seen her daily, she has grown up beside me, and has become a part of my soul."
Who acts: Brother, I, fire · What happens: think, see, grow up, become · To what, where: fire, part · 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 (Brother, I, fire), 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 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brother | punct |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 grown | compound:prt |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 become | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 become | cc |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | aux |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 soul | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 soul | nmod:poss |
| 27 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | infinitive | Brother | of this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | fire | daily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grow up | present · perfect | fire | beside me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside i=Location | ||||
| 4 | become | present · perfect | a part of my soul | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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