Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 29
Out of the earth there arose a power within me, whilst from above I also received strength; I felt an ever-renewed and ever-increasing happiness, and therefore I was obliged to go on blooming.
Who acts: I · What happens: arise, receive, feel, renew, increase, oblige · To what, where: power, earth, strength, an, happiness, I
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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 earth | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 arose | advmod |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 power | det |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obj |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 arose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 received | punct |
| 12 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 17 received | mark |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 received | case |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 received | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 received | nsubj |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 received | advmod |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | parataxis |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | parataxis |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 felt | obj |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 renewed | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ever | punct |
| 25 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 an | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 increasing | cc |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 increasing | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ever | punct |
| 29 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 renewed | conj |
| 30 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 increasing | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 obliged | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 obliged | cc |
| 33 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 36 obliged | advmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 obliged | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 obliged | aux:pass |
| 36 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 felt | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 go | mark |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 obliged | xcomp |
| 39 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 40 blooming | mark |
| 40 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 go | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a power | the earth; there | within me | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location power=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | past | I | strength | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | I | an | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Theme | ||||
| 4 | renew | participle | I not said here | ever | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | increase | gerund | I not said here | happiness | ever | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer happiness=Patient | |||
| 6 | oblige | past · passive | I | therefore property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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