Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 51
No, I can only sit up here and feel angry with that girl, the little wretch; and I am angry with you, too; you should have left her lying in the water lily, then no one would have known anything about her."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: sit up, feel, be, leave, lie, know · To what, where: girl, water lily, one
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, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 sit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sit | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sit | advmod |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 sit | compound:prt |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sit | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feel | cc |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sit | conj |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 angry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wretch | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wretch | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wretch | amod |
| 18 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 angry | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 angry | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 angry | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 angry | cop |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sit | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 angry | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 too | punct |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 angry | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 left | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 left | aux |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sit | parataxis |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 left | obj |
| 34 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 left | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 lily | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 lily | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lily | compound |
| 38 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lying | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 known | punct |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 known | advmod |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 one | det |
| 42 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 known | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 known | aux |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 known | aux |
| 45 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 left | conj |
| 46 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 known | obj |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 anything | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | can | I | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I not said here | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | with you; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | should · perfect | you | girl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | you not said here | the water lily | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lily=Location | ||||
| 6 | know | would · perfect · passive | no one | then | 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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