Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 45

"Yes, if he could only march his way up to be a general!" observed his father; "but before he can do that, there must be war."

Who acts: Drum · What happens: march up, be, observe, do · To what, where: way, general, father, that, war

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drum), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 march	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 march	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 march	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 march	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 march	advmod
8	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 march	obj
11	up	up	ADV	_	8 march	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	15 general	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 general	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 general	det
15	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 march	advcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct
18	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 march	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 observed	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 war	cc
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 be	advcl
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 do	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 be	expl
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 war	cop
33	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 march	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 march	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	march up in a quote	could	Drum	Drum's way	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	Drum not said here	a general	tree rules
3	observe	past	Drum not said here	Drum's father	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
4	do in a quote	can	Drum	that	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	is a in a quote	infinitive	Drum not said here	war	tree rules

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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