Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 98
I will be an architect, which will place me among those who possess riches and intellect, and who speculate in art.
Who acts: I, architect · What happens: be, place, possess, speculate · To what, where: architect, riches, art
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, architect), 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 | 5 architect | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 architect | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 architect | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 architect | det |
| 5 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 place | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | aux |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 architect | appos |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 place | goeswith |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 place | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 possess | nsubj |
| 14 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 possess | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 intellect | cc |
| 17 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riches | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 speculate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 speculate | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 speculate | nsubj |
| 21 | speculate | speculate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 architect | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 art | case |
| 23 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speculate | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 architect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | I | a architect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | future | a architect | among those | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | possess | present | riches and intellect | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rich=Theme | |||||
| 4 | speculate | present | a architect | art | vn invest-13.5.4 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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