Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 50

Heaven knows that I have done nothing myself, but what I was obliged to do with my weak powers for my own preservation; and yet I have been promoted from one joy and honor to another.

Who acts: Heaven, I, my · What happens: know, do, oblige, promote, preserve · To what, where: nothing, I, one joy · 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 (Heaven, I, my), 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	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 knows	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 done	obj
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 nothing	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obliged	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 obliged	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 obliged	nsubj:pass
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 obliged	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knows	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 powers	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 powers	nmod:poss
19	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 powers	amod
20	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 preservation	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 preservation	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 preservation	amod
24	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 promoted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 promoted	cc
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 promoted	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 promoted	nsubj:pass
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 promoted	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 promoted	aux:pass
31	promoted	promote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knows	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 joy	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 joy	nummod
34	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 promoted	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 honor	cc
36	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 joy	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 another	case
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 promoted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Heaven					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	present · perfect	I	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	oblige	past · passive						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	do	to-infinitive					with my weak powers; for my own preservation	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	promote	present · perfect · passive		I	one joy and honor	yet	to another	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	preserve		my					nom preservation «act transitive»: 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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