Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 121
I must venture, I shall not be denied help from heaven."
Who acts: I · What happens: venture, not deny · To what, where: I, heaven
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 | 3 venture | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 venture | aux |
| 3 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 venture | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 denied | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 denied | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 denied | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 denied | aux:pass |
| 9 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 venture | parataxis |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 denied | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 heaven | case |
| 12 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 denied | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 venture | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | must | I | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not deny | shall · passive | I | heaven | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme help=Eventuality |
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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