Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 69
I must look out, that I may not miss the opportunity.
Who acts: I · What happens: look out, not miss · To what, where: opportunity
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 look | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 miss | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 miss | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 miss | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 miss | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 miss | advmod |
| 10 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opportunity | det |
| 12 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 miss | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | must | I | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not miss | may | I | the opportunity | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus |
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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