Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 13

If I could, I would slide along yonder on the ice, as I have seen the boys do; but I don't understand how; I don't even know how to run."

Who acts: I, boys · What happens: slide, see, do, not understand, not know, run · To what, where: ice · Speech: someone speaks here

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, boys), 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	_	3 could	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 could	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 slide	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 could	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 slide	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 slide	aux
7	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 slide	advmod
9	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	12 ice	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ice	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ice	det
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slide	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 seen	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 slide	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boys	det
19	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 understand	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 understand	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 understand	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 understand	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 understand	advmod
26	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 slide	parataxis
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 understand	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 know	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 know	advmod
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 understand	parataxis
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 run	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 run	mark
36	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slide	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 slide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	slide	would	I	the ice	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory
2	see	present · perfect	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	present	the boys			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not understand	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	run	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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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