Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 240
Now do I begin to understand the happiness of paradise; I feel it to my inmost soul, in every thought.
Who acts: I · What happens: begin, understand, feel · To what, where: happiness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 begin | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 begin | nsubj |
| 4 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 understand | mark |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begin | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 happiness | det |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understand | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 paradise | case |
| 10 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happiness | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 soul | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 soul | nmod:poss |
| 17 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soul | amod |
| 18 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 thought | det |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present · do-support | I | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | I not said here | the happiness of paradise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | I | happiness | to my inmost soul | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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