Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 112
Every word she said pierced my heart like a knife; but I knew she was right, and the thought pressed heavily upon me.
Who acts: youngest, I, thought · What happens: say, pierce, know, be, press · To what, where: pierced heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, I, thought), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 word | acl:relcl |
| 5 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heart | amod |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 knife | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knife | det |
| 10 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 right | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 right | cop |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pressed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pressed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thought | det |
| 21 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pressed | nsubj |
| 22 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 23 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 22 pressed | advmod |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pressed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 word | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | youngest = young | my pierced heart | like a knife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent heart=Topic | |||
| 2 | pierce | participle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | youngest = young | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | press | past | the thought | upon me; heavily property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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