Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 5
I'm a thinking being, and so well constructed that it's quite delightful.
Who acts: I, oil · What happens: think, construct, be
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 (I, oil), 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 | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thinking | det |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thinking | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 constructed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 constructed | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 constructed | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 constructed | advmod |
| 10 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thinking | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 delightful | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 delightful | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 delightful | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 delightful | advmod |
| 15 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 constructed | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · progressive | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | construct | participle | I not said here | well property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | oil | delightful 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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