Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 32
If he had called out, "Here I am," it would have been all right, but he was too proud to cry out for help while he wore a uniform.
Who acts: goblin, head · What happens: call out, be, cry out, wear · To what, where: uniform · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (goblin, head), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 called | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 right | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Here | punct |
| 8 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Here | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Here | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 right | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 right | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 right | cop |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 right | advmod |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proud | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 proud | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 proud | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 proud | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 proud | advmod |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 right | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 cry | mark |
| 26 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 proud | csubj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 cry | compound:prt |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 help | case |
| 29 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cry | obl |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 wore | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wore | nsubj |
| 32 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cry | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 uniform | det |
| 34 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wore | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | goblin | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | goblin | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | would · perfect | head | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | goblin | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | wear | past | goblin | a uniform | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=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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