Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 50

All this pleases Phantaesus, but it is not enough for him; I am obliged to relate to him of my life in the woods; and to go back to my childhood, when I was little, and the tree so small and delicate that a stinging-nettle could overshadow it, and I have to tell everything that has happened since then till now that the tree is so large and strong.

Who acts: this, nest, I, stinging nettle, tree · What happens: please, not be, oblige, relate, go back, be · To what, where: Phantaesus, I, woods, nest, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, nest, I, stinging nettle), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 pleases	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 pleases	nsubj
3	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Phantaesus	Phantaesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pleases	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 enough	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 enough	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enough	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 enough	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 enough	advmod
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleases	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enough	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 obliged	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 obliged	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 obliged	aux:pass
16	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pleases	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 relate	mark
18	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 obliged	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 relate	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 relate	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 woods	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woods	det
26	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 relate	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleases	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 childhood	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 childhood	nmod:poss
34	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 little	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 little	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 little	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 little	cop
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 go	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 small	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 small	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 tree	det
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 small	nsubj
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 small	advmod
45	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 go	parataxis
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 delicate	cc
47	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 small	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 overshadow	mark
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 nettle	det
50	stinging	stinging	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 nettle	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 stinging	punct
52	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 overshadow	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 overshadow	aux
54	overshadow	overshadow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 delicate	ccomp
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 overshadow	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 have	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 have	cc
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 have	nsubj
59	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pleases	parataxis
60	to	to	PART	_	61 tell	mark
61	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 have	xcomp
62	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	61 tell	obj
63	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 happened	nsubj
64	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 happened	aux
65	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	62 everything	acl:relcl
66	since	since	ADP	_	67 then	case
67	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 happened	obl
68	till	till	ADP	_	69 now	case
69	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 tell	obl
70	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 large	mark
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 tree	det
72	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 large	nsubj
73	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 large	cop
74	so	so	ADV	_	75 large	advmod
75	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 tell	advcl
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 strong	cc
77	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 large	conj
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleases	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	please	present	this	Phantaesus				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus phantaesus=Experiencer
2	not is	present	nest				for Phantaesus; enough property	tree rules
3	oblige	present · passive		I				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	relate	to-infinitive			Phantaesus	the woods	of my life	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
5	go back	to-infinitive	this not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	I				little property	tree rules
7	overshadow	could	a stinging nettle	nest				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	have	present	I					tree rules
9	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	everything				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
10	happen	present · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is	present	the tree				large property	tree rules
12	be		the tree not said here					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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