Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 81

I should have been glad in my joy to throw out sparks of fire, but it has never at any time been my nature to sparkle.

Who acts: I, fire, time, my · What happens: be, throw out, have, not be, sparkle, joy · To what, where: joy, sparks, nature

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fire, time, my), 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	5 glad	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 joy	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 joy	nmod:poss
8	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glad	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 throw	compound:prt
12	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throw	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 fire	case
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sparks	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	conj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 nature	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	25 nature	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 nature	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nature	nsubj
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 nature	cop
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nature	nmod:poss
25	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sparkle	mark
27	sparkle	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nature	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	should · perfect	I		my joy	glad property	tree rules
2	throw out	to-infinitive	I not said here	sparks of fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme
3	have	present	fire				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	participle	time		my nature		tree rules
5	sparkle	to-infinitive	fire not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	joy		my				nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
7	spark		fire				nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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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