Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 25
I shall never get a sight of him again, not even if he comes back; but that he won't do, the dear boy."
Who acts: I, Emily · What happens: not get, not come back, not do, sight · To what, where: sight, dear boy, Emily
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Emily), 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 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sight | det |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sight | nmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 comes | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 comes | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 21 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 26 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 boy | amod |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | shall | I | a sight of Emily | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not come back a condition, not said to happen | present | Emily | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | future | Emily | the dear boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sight | Emily | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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