Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 76
"Never once to my lord and husband has a word passed my lips of what I have to suffer through you; my heart is full of grief about you," said the Viking's wife. "
Who acts: word, I, heart · What happens: have, pass, suffer, be, say · To what, where: word, lips · 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 (word, I, heart), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 once | advmod |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 has | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lord | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 once | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 husband | cc |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lord | conj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 word | acl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lips | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lips | nmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 suffer | mark |
| 20 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 suffer | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 full | cop |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 has | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 grief | case |
| 29 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | obl |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 grief | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Viking | det |
| 36 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Viking | case |
| 38 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 wife | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | a word | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | participle | a word not said here | my lips | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | through you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | my heart | of grief about you; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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