Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 17

"Well, the matter with me is," she said, "that I cannot collect my thoughts, and am unable to grasp the meaning of what you said to-day in church--that there are so many wicked people, and that they should burn eternally.

Who acts: matter, you, thoughts, my · What happens: be, not collect, grasp, say, burn, think · To what, where: that, meaning, church, many wicked people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, you, thoughts, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	12 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 matter	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 collect	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 collect	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 collect	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 collect	advmod
19	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 thoughts	nmod:poss
21	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 collect	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 unable	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 unable	cc
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 unable	cop
25	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 grasp	mark
27	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 unable	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 meaning	det
29	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grasp	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 what	case
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 meaning	nmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 to	punct
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 church	case
38	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	obl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 people	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 are	mark
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 are	expl
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 people	cop
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 many	advmod
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
45	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grasp	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 burn	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 burn	cc
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 burn	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 burn	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 burn	aux
52	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 unable	parataxis
53	eternally	eternally	ADV	_	52 burn	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	the matter with me				say property	tree rules
2	not collect in a quote	can	the matter with me = matter	that				tree rules
3	is in a quote	present					unable property	tree rules
4	grasp in a quote	to-infinitive		the meaning				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you		church	day		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in church=Manner
6	is a in a quote	present		many wicked people				tree rules
7	burn in a quote	should	thoughts = thought				eternally property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	think in a quote		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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