Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 26
I bloom in gladness, because I cannot do otherwise.
Who acts: I · What happens: bloom, not do · To what, where: gladness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bloom | nsubj |
| 2 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 gladness | case |
| 4 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bloom | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bloom | conj |
| 11 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bloom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | present | I | gladness | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gladness=Location | ||||
| 2 | not do | can | I | otherwise property | 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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