Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 17

I could not tell; yet I knew I could not alter my own condition, either by barking or growling."

Who acts: I, my · What happens: not tell, know, not alter, bark, growl, condition · To what, where: own condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	8 knew	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 alter	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 alter	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 alter	advmod
12	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knew	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 condition	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 condition	amod
15	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alter	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 barking	punct
17	either	either	CCONJ	_	19 barking	cc:preconj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 barking	mark
19	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tell	advcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 growling	cc
21	growling	growl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 barking	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not alter	could	I	my own condition	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent condition=Patient
4	bark	gerund	I not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	growl	gerund	I not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	condition		my		nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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