Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 60

Ever since I sat on the school-bench I have felt the power of Christianity; a power which, like a sunbeam, streams into my heart, however closely I may close my eyes against it.

Who acts: I · What happens: sit, feel, close · To what, where: school bench, power, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. 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	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 sat	advmod
2	since	since	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 bench	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bench	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bench	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 school	punct
9	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	aux
12	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 bench	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 power	det
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Christianity	case
16	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 power	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 power	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 power	det
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sunbeam	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sunbeam	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 sunbeam	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sunbeam	det
24	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 power	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 streams	punct
26	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sunbeam	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 heart	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 heart	nmod:poss
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 close	punct
31	however	however	ADV	_	35 close	advmod
32	closely	closely	ADV	_	35 close	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 close	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 close	aux
35	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 close	obj
38	against	against	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 close	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I		the school bench	ever	into my heart	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	feel	present · perfect	I	the power of Christianity				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
3	close	may	I	my eyes			against power; closely, however property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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