Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 23
No, I only wish I could get to the edge of the well, and look out; it must be beautiful up there."
Who acts: I, well · What happens: wish, get, look out, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, well), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 wish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 well | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 look | compound:prt |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beautiful | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 beautiful | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 beautiful | cop |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wish | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 there | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | could | I | to the edge of the well result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to edge=Result | ||||
| 3 | look out | infinitive | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | must | well | there | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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