Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 44
I only hope neither we nor our children may have an arrow sent through our wings, owing to that wild girl.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: hope, have, send, owe · To what, where: arrow, wings, wild girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 hope | advmod |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 have | cc:preconj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 children | cc |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 we | conj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 arrow | det |
| 12 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 arrow | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 wings | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 owing | punct |
| 18 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 have | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 girl | det |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | may | we | a arrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | a arrow not said here | our wings | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | owe | gerund | we not said here | that wild girl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to girl=Goal |
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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