Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 42

I am old, and you are old, but we may live for each other just the same; as to marrying--no; don't let us appear ridiculous at our age."

Who acts: I, you, we, us · What happens: be, live, marry, not let, appear · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we, us), 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 old	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 old	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 old	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 live	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 live	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 live	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 live	aux
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 old	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 live	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 same	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 same	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 live	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 marrying	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 marrying	mark
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 as	fixed
23	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 live	advcl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 no	punct
25	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	23 marrying	discourse
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
27	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 let	advmod
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 live	conj
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 appear	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 age	case
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 age	nmod:poss
35	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ridiculous	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		old property	tree rules
2	is	present	you		old property	tree rules
3	live	may	we		for each	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	gerund	we not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	not let	infinitive · do-support	we not said here	us		tree rules
6	appear	infinitive	us not said here		ridiculous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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