Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 34

“There is the lieutenant, now, who might go quietly to bed if he chose, where no doubt he could stretch himself at his ease; but does he do it?

Who acts: lieutenant, doubt · What happens: be, go, choose, stretch, do · To what, where: bed, doubt, ease

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lieutenant, doubt), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lieutenant	det
5	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 go	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 bed	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 chose	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chose	nsubj
17	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stretch	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 stretch	advmod
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 doubt	det
21	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretch	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stretch	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stretch	aux
24	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 chose	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 stretch	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 ease	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ease	nmod:poss
28	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretch	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 do	cc
31	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	the lieutenant		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go in a quote	might			bed	now	quietly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	choose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	lieutenant					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stretch in a quote	could	no doubt	doubt	doubt's ease			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	do in a quote	present · do-support	lieutenant	ease				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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