Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 30
To thee I dedicate these lines of woe; Wilt thou not understand the mournful tale?
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: dedicate, not understand · To what, where: lines, thee, mournful tale
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 thee | case |
| 2 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 dedicate | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dedicate | nsubj |
| 4 | dedicate | dedicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 lines | det |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dedicate | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 woe | case |
| 8 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lines | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
| 10 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 understand | aux |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 understand | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 understand | advmod |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dedicate | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tale | det |
| 15 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tale | amod |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 understand | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dedicate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dedicate | present | I | this lines of woe | to thee goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent line=Theme to thou=Goal | |||
| 2 | not understand | future | thou | the mournful tale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
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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