Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 121

“Well, well! who knows, perhaps I may fall downstairs, too, and get a princess as wife!”

Who acts: little man · What happens: know, fall, get · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little man), 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	_	7 knows	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 knows	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 knows	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 knows	nsubj
7	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 fall	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fall	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	aux
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knows	ccomp
13	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	12 fall	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 too	punct
15	too	too	ADV	_	12 fall	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 get	cc
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fall	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 wife	case
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fall in a quote	may	the little man = man		downstairs, perhaps property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get in a quote	infinitive	the little man = man not said here	a princess	as wife	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus as wife=Attribute

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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