Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 17
How unhappy they must be, if they can feel as those in my position do!
Who acts: herbs, those · What happens: be, feel, do
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herbs, those), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 unhappy | advmod |
| 2 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | csubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 unhappy | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 feel | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 do | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 position | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 position | nmod:poss |
| 15 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 those | nmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | parataxis |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | unhappy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | can | herbs = herb | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | present | those | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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