Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 5
How fortunate I am; it makes me so happy, it is such a pleasant thing to know that something can be made of me.
Who acts: I, piece · What happens: be, make, know · To what, where: me, pleasant thing, something · Speech: someone speaks here
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, piece), 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 | 2 fortunate | advmod |
| 2 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | csubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fortunate | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fortunate | cop |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thing | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thing | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thing | cop |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 thing | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thing | acl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 know | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | piece | me | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | |||
| 3 | is a | present | piece | such pleasant thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | piece not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | make | can · passive | something | of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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