Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 18
I feel that if my existence were to end now, I should still have lived a happy life.
Who acts: I, existence, my · What happens: feel, end, live, exist · To what, where: happy life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, existence, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4685): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 lived | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 end | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 existence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 end | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 end | mark |
| 9 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lived | advcl |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 end | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 end | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lived | aux |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 lived | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lived | aux |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 feel | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 life | det |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | end a condition, not said to happen | past | my existence | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | live | should · perfect | I | a happy life | still | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||
| 4 | exist | my | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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