Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 75

I strike off the heads of the wicked, and I notice that my axe is tingling to do so."

Who acts: I, axe · What happens: strike off, notice, tingle, do · To what, where: heads

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, axe), 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 strike	nsubj
2	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 heads	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heads	det
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strike	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wicked	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wicked	det
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heads	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 notice	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 notice	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 notice	nsubj
12	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strike	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 tingling	mark
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 axe	nmod:poss
15	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tingling	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tingling	aux
17	tingling	tingle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 notice	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tingling	xcomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	strike off	present	I	the heads of the wicked	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	notice	present	I		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	tingle	present · progressive	my axe		tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	my axe not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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