Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 90

I should prefer to be a builder at once, there is something real in that.

Who acts: I, something · What happens: prefer, be · To what, where: builder

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, something), 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	3 prefer	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prefer	aux
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 builder	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 builder	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 builder	det
7	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prefer	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 prefer	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prefer	advcl
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 is	nsubj
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	amod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 real	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prefer	should	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a builder		tree rules
3	be	present	something		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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