Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 23
Remember that I am hatching eggs; it may agitate me, and will affect them."
Who acts: you, I, nest · What happens: remember, hatch, agitate, affect · To what, where: eggs, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, nest), 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 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 hatching | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hatching | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hatching | aux |
| 5 | hatching | hatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Remember | advcl |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hatching | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 agitate | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 agitate | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 agitate | aux |
| 10 | agitate | agitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Remember | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 agitate | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 affect | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 affect | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 affect | aux |
| 15 | affect | affect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 agitate | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 affect | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hatch | present · progressive | I | eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product | ||||
| 3 | agitate | may | nest | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | affect | future | nest not said here | eggs = egg | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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