Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 10
The only thing that I wish for is to be able to kiss the sun, because it is so warm and bright.
Who acts: I, only thing, thing · What happens: wish, be, kiss · To what, where: only thing, sun
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, only thing, thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 able | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wish | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wish | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kiss | mark |
| 13 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kiss | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 warm | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 warm | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 warm | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 warm | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 warm | advmod |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 able | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bright | cc |
| 23 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 warm | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | the only thing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the only thing | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss | to-infinitive | the only thing not said here | the sun | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | thing | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | thing not said here | 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: «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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