Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 15
Thank God, that I stand so near and can at least see all the splendour."
Who acts: I · What happens: thank, stand, see · To what, where: God, splendour, least
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. 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 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thank | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Thank | parataxis |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 near | advmod |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 stand | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 see | obl |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 splendour | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 splendour | det |
| 16 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thank | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | I | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | can | I not said here | all splendour | least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splendour=Stimulus |
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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