Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 20
The anxiety I feel on this matter prevents me from enjoying myself in Switzerland.
Who acts: I, anxiety · What happens: feel, prevent, enjoy · To what, where: anxiety, matter, me, myself, Switzerland
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anxiety), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 anxiety | det |
| 2 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prevents | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 anxiety | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 matter | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obl |
| 8 | prevents | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 prevents | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 enjoying | mark |
| 11 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 prevents | advcl |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 enjoying | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Switzerland | case |
| 14 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 enjoying | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prevents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | the anxiety not said here | this matter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme on matter=Location | |||
| 2 | prevent | present | the anxiety | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | gerund | the anxiety not said here | myself | Switzerland | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=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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