Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 88
“I have surely a disposition to madness--'tis dreadfully hot here; my blood boils in my veins and my head is burning like a coal.”
Who acts: people, blood, head · What happens: have, boil, burn · To what, where: disposition
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, blood, head), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 “ | parataxis |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 disposition | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 disposition | det |
| 6 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 madness | case |
| 8 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disposition | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 tis | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tis | punct |
| 11 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | conj |
| 12 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 13 hot | advmod |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tis | amod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hot | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 boils | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boils | nsubj |
| 18 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 veins | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 veins | nmod:poss |
| 21 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 boils | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 burning | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burning | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 burning | aux |
| 26 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 boils | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 coal | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 coal | det |
| 29 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burning | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | people | a disposition | to madness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disposition=Patient | |||
| 2 | boil in a quote | present | my blood | in my veins | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in vein=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | burn in a quote | present · progressive | my head | like a coal | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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