Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 16

What a strange feeling it is--surely we all know it--to look through old letters of our young days; a different life rises up out of the past, as it were, with all its hopes and sorrows.

Who acts: strange feeling, we, different life, life · What happens: be, know, look, rise up, letter, hope · To what, where: feeling, past, young days

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange feeling, we, different life, 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 feeling	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feeling	det
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feeling	amod
4	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 is	nsubj
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	surely	surely	ADV	_	11 know	advmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 is	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 look	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 know	parataxis
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 letters	case
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 letters	amod
18	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 look	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 days	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 days	nmod:poss
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 letters	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 rises	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 life	det
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rises	nsubj
27	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 is	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 rises	compound:prt
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 past	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 past	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 past	det
32	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rises	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 were	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 were	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 were	nsubj
36	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rises	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hopes	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 hopes	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 hopes	det:predet
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hopes	nmod:poss
41	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 were	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sorrows	cc
43	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 hopes	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	what strange feeling				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	we	feeling		surely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	look	to-infinitive				through old letters of our young days	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through letter=Theme
4	rise up	present	a different life		the past		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out past=Location
5	be	past	life				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	letter			our young days			nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	hope		life				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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