Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 5

"I am afraid," said one of the women who stood around, to her husband, "I cannot venture to go down, nor do I care for the wonders down yonder.

Who acts: I, one · What happens: be, say, stand around, not venture, go down, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, one), 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	_	4 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 stood	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 women	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 women	det
11	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	around	around	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 husband	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 husband	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 venture	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 venture	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 venture	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 venture	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 venture	advmod
24	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stood	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 venture	xcomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 care	punct
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 care	cc
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 care	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 care	nsubj
32	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 venture	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 wonders	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wonders	det
35	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 care	obl
36	down	down	ADV	_	32 care	advmod
37	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	36 down	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I	afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand around	past	one of the women	to slab's husband; around property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not venture in a quote	can	I		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go down in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	care in a quote	present · do-support	I	for the wonders; down property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for wonder=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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