Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 26

"I don't understand him," said the Snow Man to himself; "but I have a feeling that he is talking of something very disagreeable.

Who acts: Snow Man, Man · What happens: not understand, say, have, talk · To what, where: dog, feeling · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Snow Man, Man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Man	det
11	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Man	compound
12	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 Man	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 but	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 feeling	det
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 talking	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 talking	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 talking	aux
25	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 feeling	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 something	case
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 talking	obl
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 disagreeable	advmod
29	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 something	amod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand in a quote	present · do-support	the Snow Man to Man = man	dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Snow Man to Man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	the Snow Man to Man = man	a feeling		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
4	talk in a quote	present · progressive	Man	a feeling not said here	of something	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient

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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