Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 54
It would have broken your heart, mother, had you seen it."
Who acts: you · What happens: break, see · To what, where: marsh
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 broken | aux |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 broken | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | would · perfect · passive | marsh | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient heart=Result | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | you | marsh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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