Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 47
So I hastened to get away, that I might be home in time, and bring what was highest and best, and above everything--namely, the truth.
Who acts: I · What happens: hasten, get away, be, bring
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 home | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 home | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 home | cop |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 get | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 highest | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 highest | cop |
| 20 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 best | cc |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 highest | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 namely | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 namely | cc |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 26 everything | case |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 namely | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 everything | punct |
| 28 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hastened | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 truth | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 truth | det |
| 31 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 namely | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get away | to-infinitive | I not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | might | I | time | home property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | I not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | high property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules |
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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