Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 111
Am I to do nothing whatever?” for he was one of the company, and had done what he had to do.
Who acts: I, bawling, Tree · What happens: do, be, have · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bawling, Tree), 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 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 do | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 company | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 company | det |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 done | cc |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 do | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 done | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | bawling | for one; of the company | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past · perfect | Tree not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | bawling | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | bawling not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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