Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 53
But sometimes I feel as if I had a pot in me that boils over."
Who acts: I, pot · What happens: feel, have, boil over · To what, where: pot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 feel | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 feel | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pot | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 boils | nsubj |
| 14 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pot | acl |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 boils | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | sometimes property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | a pot | in me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | |||
| 3 | boil over | present | a pot | over property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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