Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 42
Ah, well, if the little lady were only here with me in the boat, I should not care for any darkness."
Who acts: little lady, I · What happens: be, not care · To what, where: boat
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 (little lady, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 21 care | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 here | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 here | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 here | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 here | advmod |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Ah | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 here | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 here | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 care | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 care | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 care | advmod |
| 21 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 darkness | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 darkness | det |
| 24 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 care | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 care | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the little lady | the boat | with me; here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not care | should | I | for any darkness | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for darkness=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/42/