Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 58

That is the cause of it all!" he exclaimed, "I must do something in time.

Who acts: That, rain, I · What happens: be, exclaim, do · To what, where: cause, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, rain, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cause	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exclaimed	parataxis
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cause	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 it	det
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 exclaimed	nsubj
11	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 exclaimed	conj
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 do	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the cause		of cause	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	rain				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	must	I	something	time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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