Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 87
I intend to be a brickmaker; bricks are always wanted, and I shall be really doing something."
Who acts: I · What happens: intend, be, want, do · To what, where: brickmaker, bricks, 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), 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 | 2 intend | nsubj |
| 2 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 brickmaker | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brickmaker | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brickmaker | det |
| 6 | brickmaker | brickmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 intend | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 8 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wanted | aux:pass |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 wanted | advmod |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 intend | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 doing | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 doing | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 doing | aux |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 doing | advmod |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wanted | conj |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 doing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 intend | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 intend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a brickmaker | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present · passive | bricks | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | shall · progressive | I | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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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