Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 56

This is too much," she said; "I cannot bear it, the world is too large.

Who acts: This, sweep, I, world · What happens: be, say, not bear · To what, where: gilt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, sweep, I, world), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 much	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 bear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bear	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bear	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bear	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bear	advmod
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 large	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 large	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 large	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 large	advmod
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bear	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	This		much property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	sweep			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not bear	can	I	gilt		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present	the world		large property	tree rules

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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