Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 210
But I shall not leave the place, for it now begins to be amusing here.
Who acts: I, place · What happens: not leave, begin, be · To what, where: place
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 (I, place), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 leave | advmod |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begins | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 begins | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begins | nsubj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 begins | advmod |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 amusing | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 amusing | cop |
| 15 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 begins | xcomp |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 amusing | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | shall | I | the place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | present | place | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | place not said here | here | amusing 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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