Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 29
That's difficult for me to understand, however enlightened I may be with sun, moon, stearine, train oil, and tallow.
Who acts: That, me, I · What happens: be, understand, enlighten
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, me, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 difficult | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 difficult | cop |
| 3 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 difficult | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 enlightened | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 enlightened | advmod |
| 10 | enlightened | enlighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 understand | xcomp |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sun | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sun | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sun | cop |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sun | case |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enlightened | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moon | punct |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sun | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stearine | punct |
| 19 | stearine | stearine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sun | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 oil | punct |
| 21 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oil | compound |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sun | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tallow | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tallow | cc |
| 25 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 difficult | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | enlighten | participle | me not said here | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | may | I | with sun and moon and stearine and train oil | 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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