Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 85
"I mean to be somebody, and do something useful in the world," said the eldest of five brothers. "
Who acts: I · What happens: mean, be, do, say · To what, where: somebody, something, world · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 somebody | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 somebody | cop |
| 6 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 mean | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 somebody | acl:relcl |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eldest | det |
| 19 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eldest | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | somebody | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | something | the world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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