Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 54
I cannot creep into myself, however much I might wish to do so; I have to go on bearing roses.
Who acts: I · What happens: not creep, wish, do, have, go · To what, where: bearing roses
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 | 4 creep | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 creep | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 creep | advmod |
| 4 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 myself | case |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 creep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 wish | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 creep | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 creep | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 roses | case |
| 22 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 roses | compound |
| 23 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 creep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not creep | can | I | into myself | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into myself=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wish | might | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | bearing roses | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on rose=Location |
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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