Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 95
Gone, I fear, And I feel my hollow stick's not here, Ah! never, my dear, Did I feel so queer.
Who acts: I, hollow stick · What happens: fear, feel, not be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hollow stick), 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 | Gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fear | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fear | nsubj |
| 4 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feel | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fear | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stick | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stick | amod |
| 11 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 here | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 here | advmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 feel | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 16 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 14 here | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 dear | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dear | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 here | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feel | punct |
| 23 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 feel | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 feel | nsubj |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 here | conj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 queer | advmod |
| 27 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feel | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | my hollow stick | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not be | my hollow stick not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | feel | past · do-support | I | queer property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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