Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 61

I have much on my conscience, I want to become white paper!”

Who acts: I · What happens: have, want, become · To what, where: conscience, white paper

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: who acts (I), 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	much	much	ADV	_	6 conscience	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 conscience	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 conscience	nmod:poss
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 become	mark
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 paper	amod
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	xcomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	I	my conscience	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient
2	want	present	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	white paper	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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