Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 53
"I should like very much to see her," thought the soldier; but he could not obtain permission to do so.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: like, see, think, not obtain, do · To what, where: princess, permission · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 like | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldier | det |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 obtain | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 obtain | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 obtain | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 obtain | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 obtain | advmod |
| 20 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | conj |
| 21 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obtain | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 obtain | xcomp |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | the soldier = soldier | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the soldier = soldier not said here | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the soldier | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not obtain | could | soldier | permission | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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