Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 73

I cannot come in, for I must dance."

Who acts: I · What happens: not come in, dance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. 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	4 come	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dance	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 dance	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dance	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dance	aux
10	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come in	can	I						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	must	I						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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