Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 43
"The whole world is mine, why therefore should I grieve?" thought he. "
Who acts: whole world, I · What happens: be, grieve, think · To what, where: mine, Maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole world, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mine | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 world | amod |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mine | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mine | cop |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thought | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grieve | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 grieve | advmod |
| 9 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 grieve | advmod |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 grieve | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 grieve | nsubj |
| 12 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mine | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 grieve | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 grieve | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the whole world | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grieve in a quote | should | I | therefore property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Maiden | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
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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