Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 28
For many years I have not felt as I do at this moment."
Who acts: I · What happens: not feel, do
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 felt | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 felt | advmod |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | present · perfect | I | year | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | present | I | moment | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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