Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 52
I feel as if I had fire and ice within me, and the air is so oppressive.
Who acts: I, air · What happens: feel, have, be · To what, where: fire
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, air), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | ccomp |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ice | cc |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fire | conj |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 oppressive | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 oppressive | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oppressive | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 oppressive | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 oppressive | advmod |
| 18 | oppressive | oppressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feel | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | fire and ice | within me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the air | oppressive property | tree rules |
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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