Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 26
"I will do whatever you wish," said the little chimney-sweep; "let us go immediately: I think I shall be able to maintain you with my profession."
Who acts: little chimney sweep, you, us · What happens: do, wish, say, let, go, think · To what, where: whatever, us, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little chimney sweep, you, us), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sweep | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sweep | amod |
| 13 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sweep | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 chimney | punct |
| 15 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 able | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 able | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 able | cop |
| 28 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 think | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 maintain | mark |
| 30 | maintain | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 able | xcomp |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 maintain | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 profession | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 profession | nmod:poss |
| 34 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 maintain | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the little chimney sweep = sweep | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little chimney sweep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the little chimney sweep = sweep | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | shall | the little chimney sweep = sweep | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | maintain in a quote | to-infinitive | the little chimney sweep = sweep not said here | you | with my profession | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=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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