Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 55

I come here often, and if any of my friends, or those who are not my friends, are too much for me, I go out and choose a plot of ground in which to bury him or her.

Who acts: I, any · What happens: come, not be, be, go out, choose, bury · To what, where: friends, plot, poet, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, any), 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 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 come	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 much	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 much	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 friends	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friends	nmod:poss
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 any	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 those	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 those	cc
14	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 much	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 friends	obl
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 friends	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 friends	advmod
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friends	nmod:poss
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 those	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 those	punct
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 much	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 go	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 much	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 much	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 choose	cc
31	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 go	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 plot	det
33	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 choose	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 ground	case
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plot	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 bury	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 bury	mark
39	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 plot	parataxis
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bury	obj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 her	cc
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bury	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	I		here	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	present		my friends			tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	any			for me; much property	tree rules
4	go out	present	I			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	choose	infinitive	I not said here	a plot of ground			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme
6	bury	to-infinitive		poet	a plot of ground		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in which=Destination
7	plot			ground			nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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