Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 91
“I must do something in time: under such circumstances a Russian bath might do me good.
Who acts: people, Russian bath · What happens: do · To what, where: something, such circumstances, good, people
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Russian bath), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 circumstances | punct |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 circumstances | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 circumstances | amod |
| 11 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bath | det |
| 13 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bath | amod |
| 14 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 circumstances | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | iobj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | must | people | something | such circumstances | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | do in a quote | might | a Russian bath | good | people | tree rules |
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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