Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 8
I will relate to you a story, which I have reflected upon for a long time.
Who acts: I · What happens: relate, reflect · To what, where: story, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. 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 relate | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 relate | aux |
| 3 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 relate | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 relate | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reflected | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reflected | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reflected | aux |
| 12 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reflected | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 relate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | future | I | a story | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | reflect | present · perfect · passive | a story | time | tree rules |
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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