Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 113

His eyes brightened, and the words he uttered came with hesitation from his lips, but from the deepest recesses of his heart: "Christina, if you have not become too grand, and if you can be contented to live in my mother's house as my wife, we will be married some day.

Who acts: eyes, Ib, words, you · What happens: brighten, utter, come, not become, content, live · To what, where: words, Christina, you, house, deepest recesses, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Ib, words, you), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brightened	nsubj
3	brightened	brighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 uttered	nsubj
9	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 words	acl:relcl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brightened	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 hesitation	case
12	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 lips	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lips	nmod:poss
15	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hesitation	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 married	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 married	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 recesses	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 recesses	det
20	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 recesses	amod
21	recesses	recess	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 married	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 heart	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 recesses	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Christina	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Christina	punct
27	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 married	nsubj:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 become	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 become	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 become	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 become	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 become	advmod
33	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 Christina	acl:relcl
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 grand	advmod
35	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 become	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 married	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 married	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 contented	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 contented	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 contented	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 contented	aux:pass
42	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 married	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 live	mark
44	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 contented	xcomp
45	in	in	ADP	_	49 house	case
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 mother	nmod:poss
47	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 house	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 mother	case
49	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 live	obl
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 wife	case
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 wife	nmod:poss
52	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 live	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 contented	punct
54	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 married	nsubj:pass
55	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 married	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 married	aux:pass
57	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	advcl
58	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	59 day	det
59	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 married	obl:unmarked
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brighten	participle	Ib's eyes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	utter speech: other	past	Ib	the words not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	come	past	the words				with hesitation from Ib's lips	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not become a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	you	Christina not said here			grand property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient christina=Result
5	content a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can · passive		you				tree rules
6	live in a quote	to-infinitive			my mother's house		as my wife	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
7	marry in a quote	future · passive		Christina	the deepest recesses of Ib's heart	day		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	recess			Ib's heart				nom recess «state transitive»: of=patient

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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