Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 152
I shall start on my travels, but what conveyance shall I choose?
Who acts: I, conveyance · What happens: start, travel, choose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, conveyance), 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 | 3 start | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 start | aux |
| 3 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 travels | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 travels | nmod:poss |
| 6 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 start | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 choose | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 choose | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 choose | obj |
| 10 | conveyance | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 choose | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 start | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | shall | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | travel | present | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose | shall | conveyance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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