Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 1

"In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up any higher!"

Who acts: world, I · What happens: go up, not go up

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 down	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 up	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 go	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 go	compound:prt
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 higher	det
21	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 go	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up in a quote	present · progressive	world					in the world; always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in world=Attribute
2	not go up in a quote	can	I				now		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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