Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 22

If I want to see human beings, I must go into my kitchen, and sit down on the sink, for there only I have opposite neighbors.

Who acts: I · What happens: want, see, go, sit down, have · To what, where: human beings, kitchen, sink, opposite neighbors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. 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	_	3 want	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beings	amod
7	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kitchen	nmod:poss
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sit	cc
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sit	compound:prt
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 sink	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sink	det
21	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 there	case
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 have	obl
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 have	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sit	parataxis
28	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 neighbors	amod
29	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	human beings		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer being=Stimulus
3	go	must	I		my kitchen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
4	sit down	infinitive	I not said here		the sink	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sink=Location
5	have	present	I	opposite neighbors		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Patient

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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