Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 59
Now you'll have to stay,' said I, 'and I shall be cautious how I wish you flesh and blood again.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, stay, say, be, wish, flesh · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cautious | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 cautious | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cautious | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cautious | cop |
| 17 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 wish | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cautious | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 flesh | nsubj |
| 22 | flesh | flesh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wish | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blood | cc |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flesh | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 flesh | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | cautious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | flesh | present | you | again | 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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