Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 53
I won't take a single step-because I can't."
Who acts: I · What happens: not take · To what, where: single step
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. 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 | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 step | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 step | amod |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 step | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 ca | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ca | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 ca | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | future | I | a single step | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
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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