Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 31

I am like the luggage," said he; "I am here as a necessary appendage."

Who acts: I, Babette · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Babette), 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 luggage	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luggage	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 luggage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 luggage	det
5	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 luggage	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 luggage	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 here	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	ccomp
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 appendage	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 appendage	det
17	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 appendage	amod
18	appendage	appendage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 here	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	I	like the luggage	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Babette		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I	as a necessary appendage; here property	tree rules

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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