Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 9
I must have this cloth woven for me without delay."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, weave · To what, where: cloth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cloth | det |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cloth | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 woven | obl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 delay | case |
| 10 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woven | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | I | this cloth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | this cloth not said here | for me; without delay | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
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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