Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 64

But stay, I have thought of something: the wife of the Viking has no children, and how often she has wished for a little one.

Who acts: you, I, wife · What happens: stay, think, have, wish · To what, where: children

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, wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 stay	cc
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	aux
6	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stay	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 something	case
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 thought	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 wife	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Viking	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Viking	det
14	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 something	acl:relcl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wished	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 often	advmod
21	often	often	ADV	_	24 wished	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wished	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wished	aux
24	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 one	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 one	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 one	amod
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wished	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present · perfect	I		of something	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	the wife of the Viking	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	wish	present · perfect	wife		for a little one; often property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for one=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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