Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 230
I feel it glow and swell more and more in my closed hand.
Who acts: I, place · What happens: feel, glow, swell, close
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, place), 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 | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glow | nsubj |
| 4 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swell | cc |
| 6 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glow | conj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 swell | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 more | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | glow | infinitive | place | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swell | infinitive | place not said here | in my closed hand | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hand=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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