Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 53
Wherever I go I feel a want which oppresses my heart, for something better presents itself at the moment; yes, something better, which shall be the best of all; but where is that to be found?
Who acts: I, want, something · What happens: go, feel, oppress, present, be, find · To what, where: want, heart, that
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, want, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3357): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 want | det |
| 7 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 oppresses | nsubj |
| 9 | oppresses | oppress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | acl:relcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 oppresses | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 presents | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 presents | mark |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 presents | nsubj |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 something | amod |
| 16 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | advcl |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 presents | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presents | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 something | punct |
| 22 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 something | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 yes | punct |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 feel | parataxis |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 something | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 best | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 best | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 best | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 best | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 best | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 something | acl:relcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 best | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 found | cc |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 found | advmod |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | aux |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 found | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 found | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 found | aux:pass |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feel | conj |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | a want | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | ||||
| 3 | oppress | present | a want | my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | present | present | something | heart | moment | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | shall | of all; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | find | present · passive | that | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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