Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 3
You will rejoice at my happiness; for your devotion to me is great and sincere."
Who acts: You, your · What happens: rejoice, be, devote · To what, where: happiness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 rejoice | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoice | aux |
| 3 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 happiness | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoice | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 great | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 devotion | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 great | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 devotion | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 great | cop |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rejoice | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sincere | cc |
| 16 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 great | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoice | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | future | You | my happiness | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | for your devotion to me; great property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | devote | your | to me | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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