Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 103

I may even attain to rank, and have something placed before or after my name, and I shall build as others have done before me.

Who acts: I, others, my · What happens: attain, rank, have, place, build, do · To what, where: something, name

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, others, my), 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	4 attain	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 attain	aux
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 attain	advmod
4	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rank	mark
6	rank	rank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 attain	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 have	cc
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attain	parataxis
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 have	obj
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 something	acl
12	before	before	ADV	_	11 placed	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 after	cc
14	after	after	ADP	_	12 before	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 name	nmod:poss
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 build	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 build	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 build	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 build	aux
21	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 done	mark
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 done	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 build	ccomp
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 done	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 attain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	attain	may	I				tree rules
2	rank	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	have	present		something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	place	participle		my name		before property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
5	build	shall	I				tree rules
6	do	present · perfect	others		before me		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	name		my				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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