Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 9

I should imagine no one can be swifter in soaring and flight than I am; and how far I have been! far, far away."

Who acts: I, one · What happens: imagine, be · To what, where: swifter, soaring

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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	3 imagine	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swifter	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swifter	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 swifter	cop
8	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 soaring	case
10	soaring	soaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swifter	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flight	cc
12	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swifter	conj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 am	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 am	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 flight	acl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 away	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 away	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 far	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 far	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 far	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 far	cop
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 been	punct
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 away	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 away	punct
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 away	advmod
27	away	away	ADV	_	3 imagine	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	should	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	can	no one	swifter and flight	soaring		tree rules
3	is	present · perfect	I			far 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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