Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 50
I retire within myself and there I stop.
Who acts: I · What happens: retire, stop
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 (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 retire | nsubj |
| 2 | retire | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 myself | case |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 retire | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 retire | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 retire | parataxis |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 retire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | present | I | within myself | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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