Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 165
"I have done nothing at all in the world that could give me a claim to have these doors open for me," she said. "
Who acts: woman, world · What happens: do, give, have, say · To what, where: nothing, all, claim, woman, doors · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, world), 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 | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 done | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 world | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 claim | det |
| 16 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 claim | acl |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 doors | det |
| 20 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 doors | amod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 open | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 doors | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | woman | nothing | all | in the world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | give in a quote | could | the world | a claim | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient claim=Theme | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | the world not said here | this doors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | woman | this doors not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
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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