Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 51
My throat is dry and burning.
Who acts: throat · What happens: be, burn
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 (throat), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 throat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dry | cop |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 burning | cc |
| 6 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dry | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My throat | dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | My throat not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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