Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 44
"I remain here, and always shall remain, sitting at my post at the police office, and letting others take passports to distant lands.
Who acts: Amidst, letting others · What happens: remain, sit, let, take · To what, where: post, passports, distant lands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amidst, letting others), 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 | _ | 3 remain | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 remain | nsubj |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remain | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remain | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remain | cc |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 remain | advmod |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 remain | aux |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remain | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sitting | punct |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 remain | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 post | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 post | nmod:poss |
| 14 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 office | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 office | det |
| 17 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 office | compound |
| 18 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 21 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 others | amod |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | nsubj |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | conj |
| 24 | passports | passport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 lands | case |
| 26 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lands | amod |
| 27 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain in a quote | present | Amidst | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain in a quote | shall | Amidst not said here | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | gerund | Amidst not said here | my post | at the police office | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at post=Location | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | gerund | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | take in a quote | present | letting others | passports | distant lands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent passport=Theme to land=Destination |
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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