Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 9
What's to become of me!” groaned he; but he was forced, in spite of his opposition, to drink with the rest.
Who acts: One · What happens: become, groan, force, drink, spite, oppose · To what, where: One, spite, opposition · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 become | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 become | mark |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 become | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 me | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 me | punct |
| 9 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 me | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 groaned | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 forced | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 forced | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forced | aux:pass |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 become | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spite | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spite | case |
| 18 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 opposition | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 opposition | nmod:poss |
| 21 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spite | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drink | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drink | mark |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 rest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rest | det |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drink | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | of me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | groan in a quote | past | One | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | force in a quote | past · passive | One | spite of One's opposition | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | to-infinitive | with the rest | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spite in a quote | One's opposition | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | oppose in a quote | One | nom opposition «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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