Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 60

I must say I expect much in the future; we have already made such a good beginning."

Who acts: I, we · What happens: say, expect, make · To what, where: future, good beginning · 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, we), 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 say	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 expect	nsubj
5	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	5 expect	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 future	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 future	det
9	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expect	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 made	advmod
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 beginning	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 beginning	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beginning	amod
18	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	must	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	expect	present	I		the future	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	make	present · perfect	we	such good beginning		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Product

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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