Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 148
How I should have felt it now, when fortune has deserted me!
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, desert · To what, where: power, fortune
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 felt | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 felt | aux |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 felt | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deserted | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 deserted | advmod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deserted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 deserted | aux |
| 12 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 felt | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 deserted | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | should · perfect | I | power | now | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | desert | present · perfect · passive | fortune | 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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