Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 57
I shall remain at home, and be held in honor, like some old grandfather, as I really am to all these new books.
Who acts: I · What happens: remain, hold · To what, where: home, honor
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 | 3 remain | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | aux |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remain | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remain | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 honor | case |
| 11 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grandfather | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 grandfather | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 grandfather | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grandfather | amod |
| 16 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 am | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 am | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 am | nsubj |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 am | advmod |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 books | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 books | det:predet |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 books | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 books | amod |
| 26 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 am | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | shall | I | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | infinitive · passive | I not said here | honor | like some old grandfather | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in honor=Location |
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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