Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 35

"I know it," said the angel, "because I myself was the poor sick boy who walked upon crutches, and I know my own flower well."

Who acts: angel, poor sick boy · What happens: know, say, be, walk · To what, where: joy, poor sick boy, crutches, own flower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, poor sick boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 angel	det
9	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 boy	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 boy	nsubj
14	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 I	obl:unmarked
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boy	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 angel	appos
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 walked	nsubj
21	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boy	acl:relcl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 crutches	case
23	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 walked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 flower	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 flower	amod
30	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 know	obj
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 know	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the angel = angel	joy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the angel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	past	the angel = angel	the poor sick boy			tree rules
4	walk in a quote	past	the poor sick boy		crutches		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon crutch=Trajectory
5	know in a quote	present	the angel = angel	my own flower		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus

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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