Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 43

I am now finer than ever, and I shall be written upon, and who can tell what fine things I may have written upon me.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, write, tell · To what, where: I, fine things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. 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	4 finer	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finer	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 finer	advmod
4	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 finer	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 written	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 written	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 written	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 written	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 written	aux:pass
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 finer	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 written	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 tell	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 written	parataxis
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 tell	ccomp
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 what	nsubj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 written	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 written	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 written	aux
25	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 things	acl:relcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 written	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		now	fine property	tree rules
2	write	shall · passive		I			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	can					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	write	may · perfect	I	fine things not said here		upon me	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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