Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 24
The way is difficult and troublesome then, and I feel obliged to run away out of the confusion; or, if I am on the tower, I stay there and look down, and it is amusing enough.
Who acts: way, I · What happens: be, feel, oblige, run away, stay, look down · To what, where: confusion, tower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 difficult | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficult | cop |
| 4 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 troublesome | cc |
| 6 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 difficult | conj |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 troublesome | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feel | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficult | parataxis |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 run | mark |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | xcomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 confusion | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 confusion | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 confusion | det |
| 19 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 tower | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 tower | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 or | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 tower | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 tower | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tower | cop |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 tower | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tower | det |
| 28 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 difficult | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stay | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 stay | nsubj |
| 31 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tower | parataxis |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 stay | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 look | cc |
| 34 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 stay | conj |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 look | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 amusing | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 amusing | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 amusing | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 amusing | cop |
| 40 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 difficult | conj |
| 41 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 40 amusing | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the way | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the way not said here | then | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | oblige | participle | I not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | run away | to-infinitive | I not said here | the confusion | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out confusion=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the tower | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | stay | present | I | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | look down | infinitive | I not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | is | present | way | amusing, enough 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: «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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