Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 23

I should very much like to know how far it extends, and what lies beyond it."

Who acts: I, birth · What happens: like, know, extend, lie · To what, where: birth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birth), 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	5 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 extends	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 extends	nsubj
11	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lies	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lies	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 lies	nsubj
15	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	conj
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lies	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	extend	present	birth		far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	present		birth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond it=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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