Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 39
Since that hour I have ceased to dream; my sleep has been long and heavy, till in this very hour, harmony and fragrance awoke me, and set me free."
Who acts: I, sleep, long, my · What happens: cease, dream, be, awake, set, sleep · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sleep, long, my), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceased | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ceased | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | aux |
| 6 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dream | mark |
| 8 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ceased | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 long | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 long | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 long | cop |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heavy | cc |
| 16 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 long | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hour | punct |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 hour | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hour | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 hour | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 hour | advmod |
| 22 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 long | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 harmony | punct |
| 24 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hour | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fragrance | cc |
| 26 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hour | conj |
| 27 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | ccomp |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 awoke | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | parataxis |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 set | obj |
| 33 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 set | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | present · perfect | I | hour | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dream | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | my sleep | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | my sleep not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | awake | past | long and this hour and harmony and fragrance | me | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | ||||
| 7 | sleep | my | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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