Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 48
But I have remained here--must always remain here, sitting at my desk in the office, and patiently see other people fetch their passports to go abroad.
Who acts: I, other people · What happens: remain, sit, see, fetch, go · To what, where: desk, passports · 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 (I, other people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | aux |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remained | advmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 remain | punct |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 remain | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 remain | advmod |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remained | ccomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 remain | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 remain | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 desk | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 desk | nmod:poss |
| 15 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 office | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 office | det |
| 18 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 21 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fetch | nsubj |
| 25 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 passports | nmod:poss |
| 27 | passports | passport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fetch | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fetch | advcl |
| 30 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present · perfect | I | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | must | I not said here | here | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | I not said here | my desk | in the office | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at desk=Location | |||
| 4 | see | present | I not said here | patiently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fetch | present | other people | people's passports | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passport=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | other people not said here | abroad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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