Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 76
“Then I can't repent of my sins!
Who acts: Karen · What happens: not repent
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 (Karen), 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 | _ | 6 repent | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 repent | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 repent | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 repent | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 repent | advmod |
| 6 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sins | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sins | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repent | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 repent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not repent in a quote | can | Karen | then | of my sins | tree rules |
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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