Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 33

My sister will suppose he is dead; for he cannot come back, and she will not dare to question me about him."

Who acts: sister, elf · What happens: suppose, be, not come back, not dare, not question · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, elf), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suppose	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	aux
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 suppose	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 suppose	ccomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dare	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dare	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dare	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dare	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dare	advmod
20	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 question	mark
22	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dare	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 question	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 question	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	future	My sister			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	present	elf		dead property	tree rules
3	not come back	can	elf			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not dare	future	sister			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not question speech: other	to-infinitive	sister not said here	me	about elf	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about he=Topic

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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