Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 25
The open high road is my right place; up there I did not feel at ease."
Who acts: open high road, I · What happens: be, not feel · To what, where: right place, ease
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (open high road, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 road | amod |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 road | amod |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 feel | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 feel | advmod |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 ease | case |
| 17 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feel | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the open high road | my right place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not feel | past · do-support | I | ease; there | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location |
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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