Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 102

They want to be like us, but they cannot come up to us.

Who acts: people · What happens: want, be, not come up · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 us	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 us	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	people			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here		like us	tree rules
3	not come up	can	people	us		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location

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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