Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 44
I only hope I shall not be melted down."
Who acts: I · What happens: hope, not melt down · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 hope | advmod |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 melted | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 melted | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 melted | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 melted | aux:pass |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 melted | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not melt down | shall · passive | I | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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