Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 49

I have a great deal on my conscience, and it is really time I should be turned into white paper."

Who acts: I, deal · What happens: have, be, turn · To what, where: great deal, conscience, time, I, white paper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, deal), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 conscience	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 conscience	nmod:poss
8	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 time	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 time	advmod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl:unmarked
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	aux:pass
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 time	acl:relcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 paper	case
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 paper	amod
21	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I	a great deal	my conscience	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
2	is a	present	deal	time		tree rules
3	turn	should · passive		I	white paper	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into paper=Trajectory

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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