Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 20
I am changing, I am losing all my creases.
Who acts: I · What happens: change, lose · To what, where: creases
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 changing | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changing | aux |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 losing | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 losing | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 losing | aux |
| 7 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 changing | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 creases | det:predet |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 creases | nmod:poss |
| 10 | creases | crease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 losing | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · progressive | I | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | present · progressive | I | my creases | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crease=Eventuality |
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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