Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 30
That was my life; I could not do otherwise."
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 life | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 life | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 life | parataxis |
| 10 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | my life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | could | I | otherwise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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