Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 168

I should like to go to a watering-place; my beard does not grow as it ought, which is from weakness, and I must have a beard.

Who acts: I, beard · What happens: like, go, not grow, be, have · To what, where: watering place, weakness, beard

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, beard), 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	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 place	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
8	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 watering	punct
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grow	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beard	nmod:poss
13	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grow	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grow	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 grow	advmod
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 ought	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ought	nsubj
19	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 grow	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weakness	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 weakness	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 weakness	cop
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 weakness	case
24	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grow	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beard	det
31	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		a watering place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	not grow	present · do-support	my beard			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present			weakness	tree rules
5	have	must	I	a beard		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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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