Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 81
I am thinking of being married, for I have more than sufficient to support a family."
Who acts: I · What happens: think, marry, have, support · To what, where: family · 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), 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 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thinking | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | parataxis |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sufficient | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 sufficient | case |
| 13 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 support | mark |
| 15 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sufficient | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 family | det |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 support | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · progressive | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | gerund · passive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | I | sufficient property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | support | to-infinitive | I not said here | a family | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |
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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