Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 35
"And can I not obtain rest in the grave for you?"
Who acts: dead woman · What happens: not obtain · To what, where: rest, grave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead woman), 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 | _ | 6 obtain | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 obtain | cc |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 obtain | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 obtain | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 obtain | advmod |
| 6 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtain | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grave | det |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtain | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 obtain | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 obtain | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 obtain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not obtain in a quote | can | the dead woman = woman | rest | the grave | for you | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme for you=Asset |
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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