Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 41
I only wish I could slip into the hearts like a little tiny thought."
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, slip · To what, where: hearts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 wish | advmod |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 slip | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 slip | aux |
| 6 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hearts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hearts | det |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slip | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 thought | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thought | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | amod |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | amod |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hearts | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slip | could | I | the hearts like a little tiny thought | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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