Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 86

I don't care how humble my position is, so that I can only do some good, which will be something.

Who acts: I, position · What happens: not care, be, do · To what, where: good, something

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, position), 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 care	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 humble	advmod
6	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 care	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 position	nmod:poss
8	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 humble	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 humble	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 do	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 care	parataxis
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 good	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 do	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 something	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 something	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 something	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 something	cop
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 do	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care	present · do-support	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	my position		humble property	tree rules
3	do	can	I	some good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	is a	future		something		tree rules

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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