Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 39
So much as I loved thee, Rudy, and yet thou canst think ill of me."
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: love, think · To what, where: thee
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 loved | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 loved | nsubj |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 much | advcl |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 loved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rudy | punct |
| 8 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 much | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 think | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 think | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 much | conj |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 think | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ill | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | I | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | can | thou | yet | ill property | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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