Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 229
I cannot, and will not, submit to such folly.
What happens: not submit
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: 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 | 2 can | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 submit | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 can | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 submit | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 submit | cc |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 submit | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 submit | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 not | punct |
| 9 | submit | submit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 folly | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 folly | amod |
| 12 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 submit | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 submit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not submit | can · future | to such folly | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to folly=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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