Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 64
Now I am able, for the first time, to think of my real condition; and to know one's self is true progress.
Who acts: I, self, my · What happens: be, think, know, condition · To what, where: true progress
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, self, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 able | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 able | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 condition | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 condition | nmod:poss |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 condition | amod |
| 16 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | conj |
| 21 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 progress | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 one | case |
| 23 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 progress | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 progress | cop |
| 25 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 progress | amod |
| 26 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 know | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | of my real condition | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | self | one's true progress | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | condition | my | nom condition «state 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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