Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 14
Still I must try and make her acquaintance."
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: try, make, acquaint · To what, where: acquaintance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 try | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 make | cc |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | must | I | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | I not said here | wife's acquaintance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | ||||
| 3 | acquaint | wife | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: 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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