Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 139
And besides, I learned to know my inward nature, my innate qualities, the relationship I had with Poesy.
Who acts: I · What happens: learn, know, have · To what, where: inward nature, relationship
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 learned | cc |
| 2 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 learned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learned | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nature | nmod:poss |
| 9 | inward | inward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nature | amod |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 qualities | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 13 | innate | innate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 qualities | amod |
| 14 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 nature | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 relationship | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 relationship | det |
| 17 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nature | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 relationship | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Poesy | case |
| 21 | Poesy | poesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | I | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | my inward nature and my innate qualities and the relationship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nature=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | I | the relationship not said here | with Poesy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Patient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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