Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 74
Shall I purchase my freedom from service?
Who acts: I · What happens: purchase · To what, where: freedom, service
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), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 purchase | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 purchase | nsubj |
| 3 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purchase | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 service | case |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purchase | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 purchase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | shall | I | my freedom | service | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme from service=Source |
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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