Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 71
Read me something from it; the night appears so long, and my spirit thirsts to hear the word of God."
Who acts: you, night, spirit thirsts, my · What happens: read, appear, hear, thirst, word · To what, where: something, me, table, word, God
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, night, spirit thirsts, my), 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 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Read | obj |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Read | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Read | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 appears | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appears | nsubj |
| 9 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | parataxis |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 appears | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hear | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 thirsts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thirsts | compound |
| 16 | thirsts | thirst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hear | mark |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 appears | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hear | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 God | case |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 word | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Read | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | something | me | table | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Topic | ||
| 2 | appear | present | the night | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | my spirit thirsts | the word of God | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | thirst | my | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | God | nom word «communication 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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