Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 20

I must overtake him, and find my child."

Who acts: I · What happens: overtake, find · To what, where: weight, child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 overtake	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overtake	aux
3	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 overtake	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 find	cc
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overtake	conj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 overtake	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 overtake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overtake	must	I	weight					tree rules
2	find	infinitive	I not said here	my child					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic

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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