Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 24
It is necessary for me to go there, if I wish to become a first-rate performer."
Who acts: me, I · What happens: be, go, wish, become · To what, where: rate performer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (me, 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 necessary | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 necessary | cop |
| 3 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 necessary | csubj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 wish | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 become | mark |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 performer | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 rate | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 first | punct |
| 18 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 performer | compound |
| 19 | performer | performer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 necessary | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | me | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a rate performer | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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