Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 59
I could not have wandered about as they do.
Who acts: I, words · What happens: not wander, do
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, words), 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 | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wandered | aux |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wander | could · perfect | I | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | words = word | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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