Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 99

I shall certainly have to rise by my own endeavors from a bricklayer's laborer, or as a carpenter's apprentice--a lad wearing a paper cap, although I now wear a silk hat.

Who acts: I, lad, my · What happens: have, rise, wear, endeavor · To what, where: laborer, paper cap, silk hat

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, lad, my), 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 have	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rise	mark
6	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 endeavors	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 endeavors	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 endeavors	amod
10	endeavors	endeavor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rise	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	15 laborer	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bricklayer	det
13	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laborer	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 bricklayer	case
15	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 apprentice	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 apprentice	cc
18	as	as	ADP	_	22 apprentice	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 carpenter	det
20	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 apprentice	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 carpenter	case
22	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	parataxis
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 lad	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lad	det
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 apprentice	conj
26	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 lad	acl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cap	det
28	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cap	compound
29	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wearing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wear	punct
31	although	although	SCONJ	_	34 wear	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 wear	nsubj
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 wear	advmod
34	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hat	det
36	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hat	compound
37	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wear	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	shall	I				certainly property	tree rules
2	rise	to-infinitive	I not said here		a bricklayer's laborer		by my own endeavors	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by endeavor=Extent from laborer=Initial_State
3	wear	gerund	a lad not said here	a paper cap				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme
4	wear	present	I	a silk hat		now		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
5	endeavor		my					nom endeavor «act intransitive»: poss=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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