Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 27

But no; I must be silent--I am poor.

Who acts: I · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 silent	cc
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 silent	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 silent	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 silent	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 silent	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 silent	cop
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 poor	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 poor	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 poor	cop
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silent	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	I					silent property	tree rules
2	is	present	I					poor property	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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