Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 90
"I might as well go," said the Snow Man, "for I think I am breaking up as it is."
Who acts: Snow Man, stove · What happens: go, say, think, break up, be · 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 (Snow Man, stove), 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 | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 6 go | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Man | det |
| 11 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | compound |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 breaking | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 breaking | aux |
| 20 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 think | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 breaking | compound:prt |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 is | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 is | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 breaking | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | might | the Snow Man = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Snow Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Snow Man = man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break up in a quote | present · progressive | the Snow Man = man | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | stove | vn exist-47.1 «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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