Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 61
All has been prosperous with me since I was with you last; I have become rich in every way, and, were I inclined to purchase my freedom from service, I could easily do so."
Who acts: All, I · What happens: be, become, purchase, do · To what, where: freedom, service
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 (All, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 prosperous | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prosperous | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 prosperous | cop |
| 4 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prosperous | obl |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 last | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 last | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 last | cop |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 last | nsubj |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prosperous | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 become | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 prosperous | parataxis |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 become | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rich | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 inclined | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 inclined | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 inclined | cop |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 inclined | nsubj |
| 26 | inclined | incline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prosperous | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 purchase | mark |
| 28 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 inclined | xcomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 30 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 purchase | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 service | case |
| 32 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 purchase | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 do | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 do | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | aux |
| 36 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 37 do | advmod |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prosperous | conj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 do | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 do | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | All | with me; prosperous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | I | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | I | incline property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | purchase | to-infinitive | I not said here | my freedom | service | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme from service=Source | |||
| 6 | do | could | I | easily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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