Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 44
Dive down now!' they cried; 'thou shalt never more fly in the swan's plumage, thou shalt never again see Egypt; here, on the moor, thou wilt remain.'
Who acts: you, others, thou · What happens: dive down, cry, fly, see, remain · To what, where: moor, plumage, Egypt
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, others, 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 | Dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Dive | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Dive | advmod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dive | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dive | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dive | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 fly | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 fly | advmod |
| 14 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 plumage | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 swan | det |
| 17 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 swan | case |
| 19 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fly | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fly | punct |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 see | nsubj |
| 22 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 again | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 26 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dive | punct |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Dive | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 moor | punct |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 moor | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 moor | det |
| 32 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dive | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 remain | punct |
| 34 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 remain | nsubj |
| 35 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 36 remain | aux |
| 36 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Dive | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dive | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive down | imperative | you not said here | the moor; here | now | down property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on moor=Location | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | others = other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly | shall | thou | the swan's plumage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plumage=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | shall | thou | Egypt | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egypt=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | remain | future | thou | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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