Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 68
I feel the same longing I felt before; I feel that there is a life I should wish to grasp and to experience.
Who acts: I, life · What happens: feel, be, wish, grasp, experience · To what, where: same longing, life
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, life), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 longing | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 longing | amod |
| 5 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feel | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 longing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 felt | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 is | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wish | aux |
| 19 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 life | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 grasp | mark |
| 21 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 experience | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 experience | mark |
| 24 | experience | experience | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 grasp | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | the same longing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | I | the same longing not said here | before property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | present | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | present | a life | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish | should | I | a life not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grasp not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | experience | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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