Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 66

All my thoughts rein on skewers, sticks of wood, and staves; and as I am, at last, a poet, and I have worked terribly hard to make myself one, I can of course make poetry on anything.

Who acts: thoughts, I, my · What happens: rein, work, make, think · To what, where: skewers, myself, poetry, anything

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 (thoughts, I, my), 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 thoughts	det:predet
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 thoughts	nmod:poss
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rein	nsubj
4	rein	rein	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 skewers	case
6	skewers	skewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rein	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sticks	punct
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skewers	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sticks	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 staves	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 staves	cc
13	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skewers	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 last	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 last	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 am	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 am	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 last	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 am	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rein	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 poet	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 poet	det
24	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 last	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 worked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 worked	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 worked	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 worked	aux
29	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 last	conj
30	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	31 hard	advmod
31	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 worked	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hard	xcomp
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 make	obj
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 make	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 can	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 can	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 make	aux
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 course	case
40	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 can	obl
41	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rein	conj
42	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 anything	case
44	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 make	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rein	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rein	present	my thoughts		skewers and sticks of wood and staves	tree rules
2	work	present · perfect	I			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary one=Product
4	make	can	my thoughts not said here	poetry	anything	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poetry=Product
5	think		my			nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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