Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 221
If I were to choose him it would be a real blessing to my country and my subjects, and I will do it."
Who acts: I, comer · What happens: choose, be, do · To what, where: man, real blessing, comer
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, comer), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 choose | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 choose | mark |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 do | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blessing | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 blessing | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 blessing | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blessing | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blessing | amod |
| 12 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choose | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 country | nmod:poss |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blessing | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 subjects | cc |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 18 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blessing | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose a condition, not said to happen | past | I | man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | would | comer | a real blessing and my subjects | to my country | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | future | I | comer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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