Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 10

I myself don't understand how it is, for I am not acquainted with nature, but it is certainly in me.

Who acts: I, nature · What happens: not understand, be, not acquaint · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nature), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
2	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 I	obl:unmarked
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 is	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 acquainted	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 acquainted	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 acquainted	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 acquainted	aux:pass
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 acquainted	advmod
14	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 understand	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 nature	case
16	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acquainted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 me	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 me	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 me	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 me	cop
21	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	23 me	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 acquainted	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	present	nature			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not acquaint speech: other	present · passive		I	with nature	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	is	present	nature		in me; certainly 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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