Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 46
We have lived in this house longer than she has, she should think of that, and we have never forgotten our duty.
Who acts: We, Helga · What happens: live, have, think, not forget · To what, where: house, duty · 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 (We, Helga), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | aux |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 lived | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 longer | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lived | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 think | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forgotten | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 forgotten | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 forgotten | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 forgotten | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 forgotten | advmod |
| 22 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 think | ccomp |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 duty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forgotten | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | We | this house | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | have | present | Helga | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | should | Helga | of that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not forget | present · perfect | we | our duty | tree rules |
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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