Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 71
“I must go back to the New Market; there, it is to be hoped, I shall find some coaches; for if I don't, I shall never get safe to Christianshafen.”
Who acts: unintelligible · What happens: go back, hope, find, not do, not get · To what, where: market, coaches
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unintelligible), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Market | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Market | det |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Market | compound |
| 9 | Market | Market | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoped | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hoped | aux:pass |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hoped | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hoped | aux:pass |
| 17 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 go | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 coaches | det |
| 23 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 get | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 get | advcl |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 do | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 get | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 get | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 get | advmod |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 35 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 get | xcomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Christianshafen | case |
| 37 | Christianshafen | Christianshafen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 safe | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back in a quote | must | unintelligible | there | to the New Market result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to market=Result | |||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present · passive | market | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | shall | unintelligible | some coaches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | unintelligible | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not get in a quote | shall | unintelligible | safe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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