Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 12
If I only knew how to manage to move away from this place,--I should so like to move.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, manage, move away, like, move
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 manage | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 manage | mark |
| 7 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 move | mark |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 manage | xcomp |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 move | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 like | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 move | mark |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 like | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | manage | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | move away | to-infinitive | I not said here | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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