Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 31
A leaf on which my sorrows I relate-- Dark story of a darker night of fate.
Who acts: leaf, my · What happens: relate, sorrow · To what, where: Dark story
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 (leaf, my), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 relate | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sorrows | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sorrows | nsubj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leaf | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 relate | nsubj |
| 8 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 10 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 relate | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fate | case |
| 17 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 night | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 relate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | a leaf on my sorrows | Dark story of a darker night of fate | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sorrow | my | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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