Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 125
So I went my own way; I can tell you, for you will not put it in a book.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, tell, not put · To what, where: own way, you, way, book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 put | advmod |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | my own way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not put | future | you | way | a book | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in book=Destination |
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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