Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 59
I should like to see him now, while I am so merry."
Who acts: I · What happens: like, see, be · To what, where: farmer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. 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 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 merry | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 merry | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 merry | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 merry | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 merry | advmod |
| 13 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 like | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | farmer | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | merry 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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