Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 72

I must enjoy the one half-day, instead of vegetating for years in every-day sameness and weariness, in which I become ill, and at last sink and disappear like the dew on the meadows.

Who acts: I · What happens: enjoy, vegetate, become, disappear · To what, where: day sameness

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), 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 enjoy	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 enjoy	aux
3	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 half	nummod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 day	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 half	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoy	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vegetating	punct
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 vegetating	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	vegetating	vegetate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 enjoy	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 vegetating	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 sameness	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 every	punct
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sameness	compound
19	sameness	sameness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vegetating	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weariness	cc
21	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sameness	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 become	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 become	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 become	nsubj
26	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enjoy	parataxis
27	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 become	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sink	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sink	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 sink	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sink	amod
32	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoy	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 disappear	cc
34	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enjoy	conj
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 dew	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dew	det
37	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 disappear	obl
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 meadows	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 meadows	det
40	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 dew	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enjoy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	must	I		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	vegetate	gerund	I not said here	day sameness and weariness	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sameness=Location
3	become	present	I			ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Result
4	disappear	present	I not said here			like the dew on the meadows	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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