Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 72
I cannot come in, for I am forced to dance!”
Who acts: I · What happens: not come in, force, dance · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. 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 | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forced | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 forced | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 forced | aux:pass |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 come | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dance | mark |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in | can | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | force | present · passive | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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