Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 79

"It is difficult to follow you; but I go hobbling along after you with my thoughts, though what you say makes my head whirl round and round.

Who acts: smile, you, head, my · What happens: be, follow, go, hobble, say, make · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile, you, head, my), 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	_	4 difficult	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 difficult	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	cop
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 difficult	csubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 follow	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	parataxis
12	hobbling	hobble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 go	xcomp
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 hobbling	advmod
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 hobbling	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 thoughts	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 thoughts	nmod:poss
18	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hobbling	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 makes	mark
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 makes	nsubj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	conj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whirl	nsubj
27	whirl	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 makes	ccomp
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 whirl	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 round	cc
30	round	round	ADV	_	28 round	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				difficult property	tree rules
2	follow in a quote	to-infinitive		you			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	go in a quote	present	smile				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hobble in a quote	gerund	smile not said here		after you	with my thoughts; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	make in a quote	present					tree rules
7	whirl in a quote	present	my head			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	think in a quote		my				nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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