Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 70
O kind Heaven, help me to get home; I am in a burning fever.
Who acts: kind Heaven, me, I · What happens: help, get, burn, be · To what, where: me, burning fever
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind Heaven, me, 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 | O | o | ADV | _ | 3 Heaven | advmod |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Heaven | amod |
| 3 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heaven | punct |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fever | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fever | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fever | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fever | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fever | det |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fever | amod |
| 16 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | infinitive | kind Heaven | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | me not said here | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | I | a burning fever | 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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