Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 18
But she must also confess she was wrong; that she should do.
Who acts: loss · What happens: confess, be, do
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loss), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 confess | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 confess | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 confess | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 confess | advmod |
| 5 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wrong | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrong | cop |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 confess | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 confess | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | must | loss | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | loss | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | should | loss | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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