Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 48
How could I fancy that I should ever be the means of bringing knowledge and joy to man?
Who acts: I · What happens: fancy, be, bring · To what, where: knowledge, man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fancy | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fancy | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fancy | nsubj |
| 4 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 means | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 means | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 means | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fancy | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 bringing | mark |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 means | advcl |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 joy | cc |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knowledge | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | could | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | should | I | ever | mean property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | gerund | I not said here | knowledge and joy | man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme to man=Destination |
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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