Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 9
Then she said I must go out and make myself a poet.
Who acts: grandmother, I · What happens: say, go out, make · To what, where: myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 poet | det |
| 12 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | grandmother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out | must | I | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary poet=Product |
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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