Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 112
Everything is home-like and good, and yet, I know not why, I long for rest and peace; I can scarcely express what I feel.
Who acts: Everything, I · What happens: be, not know, express, feel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 like | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | cop |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 like | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 good | cc |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 like | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 yet | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 long | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 why | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 long | nsubj |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 know | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 peace | cc |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rest | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 express | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 express | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 express | aux |
| 26 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 27 express | advmod |
| 27 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 feel | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 feel | nsubj |
| 30 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 express | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everything | home, like property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Everything not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not know | present | I | yet | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | express | can | I | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | I | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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