Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 217
My secret is my prisoner; if I let the captive escape, I shall be his!"
Who acts: secret, I · What happens: be, let · To what, where: prisoner, captive escape, worm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secret, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 secret | nmod:poss |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prisoner | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prisoner | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prisoner | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 escape | det |
| 11 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 escape | amod |
| 12 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 his | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 his | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 his | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 his | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prisoner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My secret | my prisoner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the captive escape | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | shall | I | worm | 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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