Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 71
If I could only be sure of not being melted down!"
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not melt down
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 melted | mark |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 melted | advmod |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 melted | aux:pass |
| 10 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sure | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 melted | compound:prt |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not melt down | gerund · passive | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |
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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