Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 10
He begged the winds not to betray him, but I heard the name.
Who acts: turf, I · What happens: beg, not betray, hear · To what, where: winds, turf, name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turf, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 winds | det |
| 4 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 begged | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 betray | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 betray | mark |
| 7 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 betray | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | turf | the winds | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not betray | to-infinitive | turf not said here | turf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | the name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
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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