Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 26

If any one here can understand you, I may say positively I am that person."

Who acts: one, I · What happens: understand, say, be · To what, where: you, person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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	_	6 understand	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	nsubj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 one	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 understand	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	positively	positively	ADV	_	11 say	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 person	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 person	cop
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand a condition, not said to happen	can	any one	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	may	I		positively property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	I	that person		tree rules

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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