Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 44
I call that conquering him; but I do not want the prize."
Who acts: I · What happens: call, conquer, not want · To what, where: that, hare, prize · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. 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 | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | conquering | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 that | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 conquering | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 want | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 want | advmod |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 call | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prize | det |
| 13 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 want | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | I | that | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | conquer | gerund | hare | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | I | the prize | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prize=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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