Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 29

I should like to become the manager of a real theatre, and the director of a real troupe of men and women.'

Who acts: I · What happens: like, become · To what, where: manager

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 become	mark
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 manager	det
7	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 theatre	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 theatre	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 theatre	amod
11	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 manager	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 director	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 director	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 director	det
15	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 manager	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 troupe	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 troupe	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 troupe	amod
19	troupe	troupe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 director	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 troupe	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 women	cc
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 men	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the manager of a real theatre					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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