Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 133

I have seen what no human being has the power of knowing, although they would all be very glad to know--the evil conduct of their neighbors.

Who acts: I, power, children · What happens: see, have, know, be, conduct · To what, where: power, neighbors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, power, children), 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	3 seen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 seen	obj
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 has	det
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 has	amod
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 power	det
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 knowing	case
12	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 power	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glad	punct
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	20 glad	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 glad	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 glad	aux
17	all	all	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 glad	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
20	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knowing	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 know	mark
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 glad	advcl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 conduct	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 conduct	det
25	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 conduct	amod
26	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 neighbors	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neighbors	nmod:poss
29	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 conduct	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	have	present		the power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	know	gerund	the power not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	would	children = child		all, glad property	tree rules
5	know	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	conduct			children's neighbors		nom conduct «act transitive»: of=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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