Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 12
Tonight I can draw no picture of the memories of thy visit.
Who acts: I, thy · What happens: draw, visit · To what, where: picture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thy), 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 | Tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draw | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 draw | aux |
| 4 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 picture | det |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 memories | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 memories | det |
| 9 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 picture | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 visit | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 visit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 memories | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | can | I | no picture of the memories of thy visit | tonight | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | |||
| 2 | visit | thy | nom visit «act 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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