Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 83
To fly must be a heavenly art; and happy do I prize that creature in which it is innate.
Who acts: I, creature · What happens: fly, be, prize · To what, where: heavenly art, creature
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, creature), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 fly | mark |
| 2 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 art | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 art | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 art | det |
| 6 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 art | amod |
| 7 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fly | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 prize | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prize | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 prize | nsubj |
| 13 | prize | prize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fly | conj |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 creature | det |
| 15 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prize | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 innate | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 innate | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 innate | cop |
| 20 | innate | innate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creature | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | must | a heavenly art | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prize | present · do-support | I | that creature | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | creature | that creature | innate property | tree rules |
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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