Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 29

The string is quite tight; I'll try it."

Who acts: string, I · What happens: be, try · To what, where: string

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (string, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 string	det
2	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tight	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tight	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 tight	advmod
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 try	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 try	aux
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tight	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 try	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tight	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the string					tight property	tree rules
2	try	future	I	string					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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