Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 53
I shall not get the patent lacquer," said Ole, "for my fate on earth is only grease, after all."
Who acts: I, Ole, fate, my · What happens: not get, say, be, fate · To what, where: patent lacquer, grease, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ole, fate, my), 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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lacquer | det |
| 6 | patent | patent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lacquer | compound |
| 7 | lacquer | lacquer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fate | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 fate | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grease | nsubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fate | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grease | cop |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 grease | advmod |
| 21 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 all | punct |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 grease | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 grease | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 grease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | shall | I | the patent lacquer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lacquer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | my fate on earth | grease | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fate | my | earth | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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