Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 239
I feel its beam warming my very soul."
Who acts: I, hand · What happens: feel, warm, beam · To what, where: beam, soul
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, hand), 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 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 beam | nmod:poss |
| 4 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feel | obj |
| 5 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 feel | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 soul | nmod:poss |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 soul | advmod |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warming | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | hand's beam | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | gerund | I not said here | my soul | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beam | hand | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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