Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 47
“I must and will find the bell,” said he, “even if I am obliged to go to the end of the world.”
Who acts: king · What happens: find, say, oblige, go · To what, where: bell, king, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 find | cc |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bell | det |
| 8 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 obliged | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 obliged | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 obliged | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 obliged | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 obliged | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 obliged | aux:pass |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | must · future | king | the bell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | oblige a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | to the end of the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location |
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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