Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 3
I know I am now only a poor journeyman shoemaker, but I will work and strive, and become a master in time.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, be, work, strive, become · To what, where: poor journeyman shoemaker, master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 shoemaker | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shoemaker | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 shoemaker | advmod |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 shoemaker | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shoemaker | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shoemaker | amod |
| 9 | journeyman | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoemaker | compound |
| 10 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 work | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 work | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | aux |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strive | cc |
| 17 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 become | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 become | cc |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 master | det |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 become | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 master | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a poor journeyman shoemaker | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | future | I | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | strive | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | become | infinitive | I not said here | a master in time | 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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