Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 49

Look at me now: I am an old friend from the Nile, and a mother's heart contains more than her beak.

Who acts: you, I, heart · What happens: look, be, contain · To what, where: old friend, Nile, more

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 (you, 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obl
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Look	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 friend	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 friend	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 Nile	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nile	det
13	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 friend	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 contains	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 contains	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heart	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 mother	case
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contains	nsubj
20	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	advcl
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 contains	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 beak	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 beak	nmod:poss
24	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 more	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			now	at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
2	is a	present	I	a old friend	the Nile			tree rules
3	contain	present	a mother's heart	more				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme

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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