Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 23
"Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes; surely with these you can enchain a man's heart.
Who acts: you, Your · What happens: enchain, form, walk · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 form | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 walk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walk | amod |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eyes | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | expressive | expressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walk | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 enchain | punct |
| 15 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 20 enchain | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 these | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 surely | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 enchain | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 enchain | aux |
| 20 | enchain | enchain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 walk | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 man | case |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enchain | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchain in a quote | can | you | a man's heart | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | form in a quote | Your | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | walk in a quote | your | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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