Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 233
“It will be a real blessing to my people and kingdom if I choose him for my consort--I will do it!”
Who acts: beard, man · What happens: be, choose, do · To what, where: real blessing, man, beard
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 (beard, man), 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 | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blessing | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 blessing | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 blessing | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blessing | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blessing | amod |
| 7 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 “ | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blessing | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kingdom | cc |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 choose | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 choose | nsubj |
| 15 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 choose | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 consort | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 consort | nmod:poss |
| 19 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 choose | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 choose | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | beard | a real blessing | to my people and kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 2 | choose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | what man = man | man | for my consort | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for consort=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | what man = man | beard | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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