Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 2

It is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply, my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightly describe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me; and yet I am a painter; my eye tells me as much as that, and all my friends who have seen my sketches and fancies say the same.

Who acts: INTRODUCTION, I, thoughts, eye, sketches · What happens: be, feel, tie, not describe, portray, rise · To what, where: strange thing, hands, thoughts, painter, much, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (INTRODUCTION, I, thoughts, eye), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feel	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 feel	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 feel	nsubj
9	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 fervently	advmod
11	fervently	fervently	ADV	_	9 feel	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 deeply	cc
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 deeply	advmod
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	11 fervently	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hands	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tied	nsubj:pass
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tongue	cc
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tongue	nmod:poss
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hands	conj
21	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tied	aux
22	alike	alike	ADV	_	23 tied	advmod
23	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feel	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 describe	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	31 describe	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 describe	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 describe	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 describe	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 describe	advmod
30	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	31 describe	advmod
31	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feel	parataxis
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 portray	cc
33	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	34 portray	advmod
34	portray	portray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 describe	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 thoughts	det
36	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 portray	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 rising	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 rising	aux
39	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 thoughts	acl:relcl
40	within	within	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 rising	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 painter	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 painter	cc
44	yet	yet	ADV	_	48 painter	advmod
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 painter	nsubj
46	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 painter	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 painter	det
48	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	appos
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 tells	punct
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eye	nmod:poss
51	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tells	nsubj
52	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	conj
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 tells	iobj
54	as	as	ADV	_	55 much	advmod
55	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tells	obj
56	as	as	ADP	_	57 that	case
57	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 much	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 seen	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 seen	cc
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	62 friends	det:predet
61	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 friends	nmod:poss
62	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 seen	nsubj:pass
63	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 seen	nsubj
64	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 seen	aux
65	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 tells	ccomp
66	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 sketches	nmod:poss
67	sketches	sketch	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 say	nsubj
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 fancies	cc
69	fancies	fancy	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 sketches	conj
70	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 seen	parataxis
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 same	det
72	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 say	obj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	INTRODUCTION	a strange thing				tree rules
2	feel	present	I				fervently property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	tie	present · passive		my hands and my tongue			alike property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	not describe	can	I				rightly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	portray	infinitive	I not said here	the thoughts			accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
6	rise	present · progressive	the thoughts				within me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	I	a painter		yet		tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	present	my eye	much	me			tree rules
9	see	present · perfect · passive		my friends				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
10	say speech: assert	present	my sketches and fancies	the same				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic

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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