Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 192
I know your complaint arose from being too sharp-sighted, and in this case it has entirely failed.
Who acts: I, complaint, your · What happens: know, arise, sight, fail, complain · To what, where: complaint, case · 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, complaint, your), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 4 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 sighted | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sighted | aux:pass |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 sighted | advmod |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sighted | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sharp | punct |
| 11 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arose | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 failed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 failed | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 case | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 case | det |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 failed | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 failed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 failed | aux |
| 19 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 20 failed | advmod |
| 20 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 know | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | arise | past | your complaint | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sight | gerund · passive | your complaint not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | fail | present · perfect · passive | complaint | this case | entirely property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | complain | your | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=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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