Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 157
I cannot live in the palace, and build my nest; but let me come when I like.
Who acts: I, me · What happens: not live, build, let, come, like · To what, where: palace, nest, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me), 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 live | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 build | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 build | cc |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 like | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | can | I | the palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | infinitive | I not said here | my nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | me not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | like | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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