Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 98
I could not have done that; but I shall learn in time."
Who acts: I · What happens: not do, learn · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. 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 | 5 done | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 done | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 learn | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 learn | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 learn | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 learn | aux |
| 11 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 learn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could · perfect | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | learn | shall | I | time | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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