Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 32

“We are obliged to lock this fellow in too, or he would make his escape.

Who acts: reindeer · What happens: oblige, lock, make, escape · To what, where: We, fellow, escape

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer), 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 obliged	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lock	mark
6	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fellow	det
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lock	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 too	case
10	too	too	ADV	_	6 lock	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 make	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 escape	nmod:poss
17	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	oblige in a quote	present · passive		We	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	lock in a quote	to-infinitive		this fellow	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient
3	make in a quote	would	reindeer	reindeer's escape	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Product
4	escape in a quote		reindeer		nom escape «act intransitive»: 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: «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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