Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 90
"We must accomplish it," said the Ice Maiden; "either you or I must; and I will--I will!"
Who acts: We, Ice Maiden · What happens: accomplish, say · To what, where: power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Ice Maiden), 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 | _ | 4 accomplish | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 accomplish | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 accomplish | aux |
| 4 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accomplish | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 accomplish | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accomplish | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Maiden | det |
| 10 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Maiden | compound |
| 11 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 14 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 15 you | cc:preconj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 must | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 I | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | conj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 will | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 will | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 will | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 will | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 will | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 will | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 will | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 will | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish in a quote | must | We | power | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Ice Maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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