Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 113

In every action something imperfect may be discovered, something not right, which I shall make it my business to find out and expose; that will be something, I fancy."

Who acts: that, I · What happens: discover, make, find out, expose, be, fancy · To what, where: something, action

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 (that, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 action	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discovered	obl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 discovered	nsubj:pass
5	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 discovered	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 discovered	aux:pass
8	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 something	punct
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 discovered	obj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 right	advmod
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 make	nsubj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 something	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 business	nmod:poss
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 find	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 expose	cc
25	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 find	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 something	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 something	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 something	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 something	cop
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 discovered	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fancy	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 fancy	nsubj
33	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 something	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 something	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	discover	may · passive		something	every action	tree rules
2	make	shall		action		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary business=Product
3	find out	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	expose	infinitive				vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	future	that	something		tree rules
6	fancy	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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