Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 20

He thinks, I suppose, that he will be able to manage it at last; but I do not think so, however long he may play it."

Who acts: music, I · What happens: think, suppose, be, manage, not think, play · To what, where: foreign, last · 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 (music, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 suppose	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 suppose	nsubj
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 able	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 able	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 able	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 able	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	cop
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suppose	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 manage	mark
13	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 manage	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 manage	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 think	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 think	advmod
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suppose	ccomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	22 think	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 play	punct
25	however	however	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 play	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 play	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 play	aux
29	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 play	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	music				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	future	music			able property	tree rules
4	manage	to-infinitive	music not said here	foreign	last		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Eventuality
5	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	play	may	music	foreign		long property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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