Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 25
I can feel such pricks and stabs in my left leg; I am sure there is going to be a change."
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, be, go · To what, where: such pricks, left leg, change
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. 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 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pricks | amod |
| 5 | pricks | prick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stabs | cc |
| 7 | stabs | stab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pricks | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 leg | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leg | nmod:poss |
| 10 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leg | amod |
| 11 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | conj |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 going | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 change | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 change | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 change | det |
| 22 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | I | such pricks and stabs | my left leg | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prick=Theme in leg=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | I not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | a change | 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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