Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 78
"What must I do to earn my bread by poetry?"
Who acts: poet · What happens: do, earn · To what, where: bread
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 earn | mark |
| 7 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bread | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earn | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 poetry | case |
| 11 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earn | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | must | a poet = poet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | earn in a quote | to-infinitive | a poet = poet not said here | my bread | by poetry | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
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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