Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 39
The song of the mother sinks into the heart of the child, and the little one prattles the words after her, without understanding their meaning; but after a time the thoughts expand, and what has been heard in childhood seems to the mind clear and bright.
Who acts: song, little one, thoughts, mother, words · What happens: sink, prattle, understand, expand, hear, seem · To what, where: heart, words, meaning, childhood
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 (song, little one, thoughts, mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sinks | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mother | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 song | nmod |
| 6 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sinks | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 child | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prattles | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prattles | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prattles | nsubj |
| 18 | prattles | prattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sinks | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 words | det |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prattles | obj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 words | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 understanding | punct |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 understanding | mark |
| 25 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 prattles | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 27 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 understanding | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 expand | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 expand | cc |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 expand | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thoughts | det |
| 34 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 expand | nsubj |
| 35 | expand | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 seems | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 heard | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 heard | cc |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 heard | obj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 heard | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 heard | aux:pass |
| 41 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 expand | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 childhood | case |
| 43 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 heard | obl |
| 44 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sinks | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 mind | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 mind | det |
| 47 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seems | obl |
| 48 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 seems | xcomp |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 bright | cc |
| 50 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 clear | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | the song of the mother | the heart of the child | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | prattle speech: other | present | the little one | the words | after song | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 3 | understand | gerund | the little one not said here | words's meaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | expand | present | the thoughts | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hear | present · perfect · passive | the thoughts not said here | childhood | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: what=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | seem | present | to the mind; clear property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sing | the mother | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mean | words = word | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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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