Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 93
I intend to get betrothed, for I can provide for more than one family.”
Who acts: I · What happens: intend, betroth, provide
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 intend | nsubj |
| 2 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 betrothed | mark |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 5 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 intend | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 provide | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 provide | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 provide | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 provide | aux |
| 10 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 intend | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 14 one | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 more | fixed |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 family | nummod |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 provide | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 intend | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 intend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | betroth not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | |||||
| 3 | provide | can | I | for one family | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for family=Recipient |
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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