Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 52
I suppose now I shall be sent on my travels about the world, so that people may read me.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: suppose, send, travel, read · To what, where: I, me
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, people), 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 | 2 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 suppose | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 suppose | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 travels | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 travels | nmod:poss |
| 10 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travels | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 read | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 read | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 read | aux |
| 19 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 read | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | shall · passive | I | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | about the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | read | may | people | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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