Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 15

I only go on quietly, and always think the best."

Who acts: I · What happens: go on, think

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 think	cc
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 think	advmod
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 best	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 think	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present	I					quietly property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	infinitive						always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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