Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 199
"It makes me unhappy to think that I shall die, and leave this poor child," sighed she. "
Who acts: death · What happens: make, think, die, leave, sigh · To what, where: death, poor child, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unhappy | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 die | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 die | aux |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 child | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 child | amod |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sighed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sighed | punct |
| 20 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sighed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | death | death | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | death not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | shall | death | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | this poor child | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sigh | past | child | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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