Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 59
If I am to be Babette's husband, I must see her some time or other."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, see · To what, where: husband, roll
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 husband | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 husband | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 husband | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 husband | cop |
| 6 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Babette | case |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 husband | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 other | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | I | Babette's husband | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | must | I | roll | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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