Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 80
Yes, if I could change myself into anything I would be a little lark."
Who acts: I · What happens: change, be · To what, where: myself, anything, little lark
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 (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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 change | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 change | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 change | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 change | aux |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 change | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 anything | case |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 change | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lark | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lark | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lark | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lark | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lark | amod |
| 15 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anything | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | could | I | myself | into anything result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into anything=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | would | I | a little lark | 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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