Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 201
I only hope his beard won't grow, or he will leave at once."
Who acts: I, beard, prince · What happens: hope, not grow, leave · 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, beard, prince), 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 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 hope | advmod |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beard | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 grow | advmod |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 leave | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | aux |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 leave | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not grow | future | prince's beard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | future | prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location |
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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