Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 3
I should like to go out there and smoke my pipe."
Who acts: I · What happens: like, go out, smoke · To what, where: pipe
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smoke | cc |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smoke | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | there | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | smoke | infinitive | I not said here | my pipe | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |
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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