Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 84
I have half a mind to go back again, and say what I suffer.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, go back, say, suffer · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 mind | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mind | det |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mind | acl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 say | cc |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 suffer | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 suffer | nsubj |
| 15 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | half mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | I not said here | half mind not said here | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | suffer | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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