Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 68
"But the air gives you the breath of life," whispered the poet.
Who acts: air, poet · What happens: give, whisper · To what, where: breath, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, poet), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gives | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gives | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 air | det |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 5 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gives | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 breath | det |
| 8 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breath | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gives | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 poet | det |
| 15 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | the air | the breath of life | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient breath=Theme | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the poet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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