Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 44
“I shall now be obliged to ask the hair-comb.
What happens: oblige, ask · To what, where: scissors, hair comb
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 obliged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 obliged | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 comb | det |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comb | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hair | punct |
| 12 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige in a quote | shall · passive | the scissors = scissors | now | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | the hair comb | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent comb=Recipient |
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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