Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 211
I am extremely fond of that stranger: would that his beard should not grow, for in that case he will leave us!”
Who acts: I, beard, stranger · What happens: be, not grow, leave · To what, where: us, case
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, beard, stranger), 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 | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 4 fond | advmod |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stranger | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fond | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 grow | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | aux |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 grow | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beard | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 grow | advmod |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fond | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leave | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 leave | mark |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 case | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 case | det |
| 20 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leave | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 leave | aux |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grow | conj |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | of that stranger; extremely, fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grow | should | stranger's beard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | future | stranger | us | that case | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme in case=Location |
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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