Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 90

If I could but once take a leap up there, my body might stay here on the steps for what I care.”

Who acts: body, I · What happens: take, stay, care · To what, where: leap

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 (body, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 could	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 could	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 leap	det
8	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	up	up	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 take	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stay	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 body	nmod:poss
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stay	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stay	aux
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 stay	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 steps	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 steps	det
19	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stay	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 steps	nmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 care	nsubj
23	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	could		a leap	there	once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
2	stay	might	my body		here	on the steps	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location
3	care	present	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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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