Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 29

“I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon me, and be a poet myself; I am very sure I should make no such miserable verses as the others.

Who acts: strange race · What happens: like, take, be, make · To what, where: such nature, poet, such miserable verses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange race), 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 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trial	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 trial	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 trial	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trial	det
11	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	conj
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nature	amod
16	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poet	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 poet	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 poet	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 poet	det
23	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	parataxis
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	23 poet	obl:unmarked
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sure	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 sure	advmod
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 like	conj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sure	ccomp
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 verses	det
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 verses	amod
35	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 verses	amod
36	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obj
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 others	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 others	det
39	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	a strange race and that poets = race		day	for a trial	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for trial=Attribute
2	take in a quote	to-infinitive	a strange race and that poets = race not said here	such nature		upon a strange race and that poets = race	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Theme
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		a poet		myself obl:unmarked	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	a strange race and that poets = race			sure property	tree rules
5	make in a quote	should	a strange race and that poets = race	no such miserable verses		as the others	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Product

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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