Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 205

It is somewhat expensive, but I like to have something for myself!”

Who acts: cloth, I · What happens: be, like, have · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 expensive	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 expensive	cop
3	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	4 expensive	advmod
4	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 like	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 expensive	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 have	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 myself	case
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 have	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 expensive	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 expensive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	cloth		expensive, somewhat property	tree rules
2	like	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	something	for myself	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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