Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 123

I don't want to talk to them, and it looks miserable here--that's my opinion."

Who acts: I, sake, that · What happens: not want, talk, look, be · To what, where: roses, opinion

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sake, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looks	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looks	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looks	nsubj
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	parataxis
13	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looks	xcomp
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 miserable	advmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 opinion	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 opinion	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 opinion	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 opinion	nmod:poss
19	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looks	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		roses = rose		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
3	look	present	sake			miserable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present	that	my opinion			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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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