Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 32

We are obliged to hold him tight too, or else he would run away from us also.

Who acts: chimney · What happens: oblige, hold, run away · To what, where: We, chimney

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chimney), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 obliged	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	aux:pass
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hold	mark
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj
7	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 run	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 run	cc
11	else	else	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 run	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 run	aux
14	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hold	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 run	obl
18	also	also	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		We		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	hold	to-infinitive		chimney	tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	run away	would	chimney		from us; away, else property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from we=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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