Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 40
I am happy!" the Dryad cried, rejoicing; "and yet I cannot realize, cannot describe what I feel.
Who acts: I, Dryad · What happens: be, cry, rejoice, not realize, not describe, feel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Dryad), 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 | 3 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dryad | det |
| 7 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoicing | punct |
| 10 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoicing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoicing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 realize | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 realize | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 realize | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 realize | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 realize | advmod |
| 18 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 describe | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 describe | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 describe | advmod |
| 22 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 realize | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 feel | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 feel | nsubj |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 describe | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Dryad | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rejoice in a quote | gerund | the Dryad not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not realize | can | I | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not describe | can | I not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | 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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