Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 42

Surely I must know my own satire."

Who acts: I · What happens: know · To what, where: own satire

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 satire	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 satire	amod
7	satire	satire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	must	I	my own satire				surely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer satire=Stimulus

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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