Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 152
I should like a travelling companion; will you travel with me as my shadow?
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: like, travel, shadow · To what, where: travelling companion
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, my), 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 | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 companion | det |
| 5 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 companion | compound |
| 6 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 travel | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 travel | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 travel | nsubj |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 travel | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 shadow | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | a travelling companion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot companion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | future | you | with me; as my shadow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shadow | my | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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