Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 49
Certainly he must long to see me, too, the young count; no doubt he thinks of me and loves me, as in those days when he would fling his angel-arms round my neck, and lisp 'Anne Liz.'
Who acts: child, doubt · What happens: see, think, love, fling, lisp · To what, where: me, angel arms, Anne
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, doubt), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 count | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 count | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 count | amod |
| 13 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 doubt | det |
| 16 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinks | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thinks | nsubj |
| 18 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 thinks | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 loves | cc |
| 22 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thinks | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 loves | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 days | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 days | det |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 loves | obl |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 fling | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fling | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fling | aux |
| 32 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 loves | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 arms | nmod:poss |
| 34 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 arms | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 angel | punct |
| 36 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fling | obj |
| 37 | round | round | ADP | _ | 39 neck | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 neck | nmod:poss |
| 39 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fling | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lisp | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 lisp | cc |
| 42 | lisp | lisp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thinks | conj |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 Anne | punct |
| 44 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 lisp | obj |
| 45 | Liz | Liz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Anne | flat |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | must | child | me | the young count obl; certainly, long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | no doubt | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | love | present | no doubt not said here | me | day | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | fling | would | child | child's angel arms | round my neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 5 | lisp speech: other | infinitive | no doubt not said here | Anne | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anne=Topic |
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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