Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 107
Wherever I go, I am pursued by a longing that is insatiable--that I cannot explain to myself, and that tears my very heart.
Who acts: I, longing, that · What happens: go, pursue, be, not explain, tear · To what, where: I, myself, heart
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, longing, that), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pursued | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pursued | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pursued | aux:pass |
| 7 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 longing | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 longing | det |
| 10 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pursued | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 insatiable | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 insatiable | cop |
| 13 | insatiable | insatiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 longing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 explain | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 explain | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 explain | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 explain | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 explain | advmod |
| 19 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pursued | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 myself | case |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 explain | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tears | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tears | cc |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 tears | nsubj |
| 25 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pursued | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 heart | advmod |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tears | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pursue | present · passive | a longing | I | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a longing | insatiable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not explain speech: assert | can | I | myself | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | tear | present | that | my heart | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location heart=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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