Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 13
I feel a stirring and striving within me; I must stretch myself, I must unlock the door, I must get out, and must nod a good morning to the summer, and what a happy time that will be!"
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, strive, stretch, unlock, get out, nod · To what, where: stirring, myself, door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. 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 | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stirring | det |
| 4 | stirring | stirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feel | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 striving | cc |
| 6 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 feel | conj |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 striving | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretch | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 stretch | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretch | aux |
| 12 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feel | conj |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 stretch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unlock | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 unlock | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 unlock | aux |
| 17 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stretch | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unlock | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 unlock | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nod | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 nod | cc |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 nod | aux |
| 28 | nod | nod | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feel | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 morning | amod |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nod | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 summer | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 summer | det |
| 34 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nod | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 what | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 what | cc |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 feel | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 39 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 what | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 be | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 be | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 time | acl:relcl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | a stirring | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strive | gerund | I not said here | within me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stretch | must | I | myself | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | unlock | must | I | the door | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get out | must | I | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | nod | must | I not said here | morning; summer | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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