Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 3
My thoughts flew far away, up to my great friend, who every evening told me such pretty tales, and showed me pictures.
Who acts: thoughts, great friend, My · What happens: fly, tell, show, think · To what, where: such pretty tales, me, pictures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thoughts, great friend, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 up | fixed |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | amod |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 told | nsubj |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 friend | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tales | amod |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tales | amod |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 showed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 showed | cc |
| 23 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 showed | iobj |
| 25 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 showed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | My thoughts | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | my great friend | such pretty tales | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 3 | show | past | My thoughts not said here | pictures | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient picture=Topic | |||
| 4 | think | My | nom thought «cognition 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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