Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 48
I shall pay a visit to the palace," he said; "I must go, for I cannot help myself."
Who acts: I, face · What happens: pay, say, go, not help · To what, where: visit, palace, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, face), 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 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | aux |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 visit | det |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 palace | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 palace | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pay | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 help | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 help | advmod |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 24 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | shall | I | a visit | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | face | the palace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to palace=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | must | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not help | can | I | myself | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary |
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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