Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 156
His very silence now proves his affection."
Who acts: silence, bond · What happens: prove, silence · To what, where: affection
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 (silence, bond), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 silence | nmod:poss |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 silence | advmod |
| 3 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proves | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 proves | advmod |
| 5 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 affection | nmod:poss |
| 7 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proves | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proves | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 proves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | bond's silence | bond's affection | now | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme | |||
| 2 | silence | bond | nom silence «state transitive»: 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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