Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 15
I have two pewter soldiers--this is one of them, and he shall have it, for I know he is so very, very lonely.”
Who acts: I, this, man · What happens: have, be, know · To what, where: two pewter soldiers, one, master
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 soldiers | nummod |
| 4 | pewter | pewter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldiers | amod |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 one | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 soldiers | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | parataxis |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lonely | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lonely | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 lonely | advmod |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 lonely | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lonely | punct |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 lonely | advmod |
| 28 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 know | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | two pewter soldiers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | one | of soldiers = soldier | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | shall | man | master | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | man | lonely property | tree rules |
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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