Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 30
And he spoke these words with the deep longing of his whole nature.
Who acts: bird, whole nature · What happens: speak, long · To what, where: words · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, whole nature), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 longing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 longing | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 longing | amod |
| 9 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nature | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nature | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nature | amod |
| 13 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longing | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | bird | this words | with the deep longing of bird's whole nature | tree rules | |||
| 2 | long | bird's whole nature | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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