Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 78
But love never entered thy heart; it is cold and clammy, like the plants on the moor."
Who acts: love · What happens: not enter, be · To what, where: heart
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 (love), 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 | _ | 4 entered | cc |
| 2 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 entered | advmod |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 cold | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cold | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cold | cop |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 entered | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clammy | cc |
| 12 | clammy | clammy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cold | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plants | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 plants | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plants | det |
| 16 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cold | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 moor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moor | det |
| 19 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plants | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not enter | past | love | thy heart | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | love | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | love not said here | 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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