Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 52

I wish I could make a little spring up there now; I would willingly let my body lie here on the steps."

Who acts: I, body · What happens: wish, make, let, lie · To what, where: body · Speech: someone speaks here

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, body), 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	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spring	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spring	amod
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	up	up	ADV	_	5 make	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 up	fixed
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 up	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
15	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	parataxis
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
19	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 lie	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 steps	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 steps	det
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lie	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make	could	I			spring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	let	would	I	my body			willingly property	tree rules
4	lie	infinitive	my body not said here		here		on the steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=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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