Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 52
I will go in here," he said, "and sit down in a corner; for I am quite tired, and want rest."
Who acts: I, weather · What happens: go, say, sit down, be, want · To what, where: corner, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, weather), 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 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 here | case |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sit | cc |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sit | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 corner | det |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 tired | case |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 tired | advmod |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sit | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 want | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 want | cc |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | weather | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit down | infinitive | I not said here | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | present | rest | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=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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