Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 54
There the moisture is warm and refreshing; that's the climate for me, but I could not take it with me on my travels.
Who acts: moisture, that, I · What happens: be, refresh, not take, travel · To what, where: climate, moisture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moisture, that, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 warm | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moisture | det |
| 3 | moisture | moisture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 refreshing | cc |
| 7 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 climate | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 climate | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 climate | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 climate | det |
| 12 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 climate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 take | advmod |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 climate | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obl |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 travels | mark |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 travels | nmod:poss |
| 26 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the moisture | there | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refresh | gerund | the moisture not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the climate | for me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not take | could | I | moisture | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | travel | present | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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