Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 33
It must go in, if I have to push it myself."
Who acts: egg, I · What happens: go in, have, push · To what, where: egg
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 push | mark |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 push | obj |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 push | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | must | egg | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | push | to-infinitive | I not said here | egg | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme myself=Destination |
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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