Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 54

I shall penetrate you so thoroughly," he said, "that you will have the power of becoming rusty, and, if you wish it, to crumble into dust in one night."

Who acts: I, drop, you, power · What happens: penetrate, say, have, become, wish, crumble · To what, where: you, power, dust · 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, drop, you, power), 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 penetrate	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 penetrate	aux
3	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 penetrate	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 thoroughly	advmod
6	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	3 penetrate	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 penetrate	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 power	det
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 becoming	mark
20	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 power	acl
21	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 becoming	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wish	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wish	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wish	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wish	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 wish	nsubj
27	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wish	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crumble	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 crumble	mark
31	crumble	crumble	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 have	parataxis
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 dust	case
33	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crumble	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 night	nummod
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crumble	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 penetrate	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 penetrate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	penetrate	shall	I	you		thoroughly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	drop				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	future	you	the power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	become	gerund	the power not said here			rusty property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you	power			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	crumble	to-infinitive			night	into dust result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dust=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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