Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 31
O, I am really very thankful that I was not made like one of these flowers."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not make · To what, where: I
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 (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 | INTJ | _ | 7 thankful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 O | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 thankful | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thankful | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 thankful | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 thankful | advmod |
| 7 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 made | advmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thankful | advcl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 made | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 flowers | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 flowers | det |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thankful | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thankful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · passive | I | like one of this flowers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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