Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 49

However, there are quite enough left; I should very much like to examine these a little nearer, especially the moon, for that could not slip away under one's hands.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: be, leave, like, examine, not slip away · To what, where: moon, these, hands

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, that), 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	However	however	ADV	_	13 like	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 However	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 enough	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 left	advmod
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 are	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 like	advmod
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 examine	mark
15	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
16	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 examine	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nearer	obl
19	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 examine	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 moon	punct
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 moon	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 moon	det
23	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slip	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 slip	mark
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 slip	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 slip	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 slip	advmod
29	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 slip	advmod
31	under	under	ADP	_	34 hands	case
32	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 one	case
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 slip	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				however property	tree rules
2	leave	participle				enough property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	should	I	the moon			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	examine not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	these		near property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
5	not slip away	could	that		one's hands	away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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