Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 48
I never felt before as I do now; it must be the air of spring.
Who acts: I, crow · What happens: not feel, do, be · To what, where: air
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, crow), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 felt | advmod |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | advcl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 air | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 air | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 air | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 air | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 spring | case |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 air | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past | I | before property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | present | I | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | must | crow | the air | spring | tree rules |
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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