Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 59

"The vault of heaven is above me everywhere," he says, "and what do I want more?"

Who acts: vault, man · What happens: be, say, want · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vault, 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	_	8 me	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vault	det
3	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 me	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 heaven	case
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vault	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 me	cop
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 says	obl
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 says	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 everywhere	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 want	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 want	obj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 want	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 want	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 more	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the vault of heaven		above man	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	present	man		everywhere property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	want in a quote	present · do-support	man	more		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Attribute

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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