Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 53

It cannot be otherwise; indeed, it is more than probable; for I have more splendid thoughts written upon me, than I had pretty flowers in olden times.

Who acts: song, I · What happens: not be, be, have, write · To what, where: splendid thoughts, flowers

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 (song, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 otherwise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 otherwise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 otherwise	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 otherwise	cop
5	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 otherwise	punct
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 otherwise	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 more	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 more	cop
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 probable	case
13	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 more	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 more	parataxis
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 splendid	advmod
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thoughts	amod
20	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
21	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 thoughts	acl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 written	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thoughts	conj
28	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	29 flowers	advmod
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 times	case
31	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 times	amod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	song			indeed, otherwise property	tree rules
2	is	present	song			than probable; more property	tree rules
3	have	present	I	splendid thoughts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
4	write	participle		splendid thoughts not said here		upon me	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	I	flowers	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

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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