Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 103
I shall be sheltered here, I dare say, until spring comes.
Who acts: I, spring · What happens: shelter, dare, say, come · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spring), 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 | 4 sheltered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sheltered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sheltered | aux:pass |
| 4 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sheltered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dare | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dare | nsubj |
| 8 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sheltered | parataxis |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dare | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sheltered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shelter | shall · passive | I | here | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dare | present | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | present | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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