Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 91

I must throw him into the river, that he may be drowned."

Who acts: I · What happens: throw, drown · To what, where: Claus, river

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 throw	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	aux
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throw	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drowned	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 drowned	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drowned	nsubj:pass
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drowned	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 drowned	aux:pass
13	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 throw	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	must	I	Claus				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result
2	drown	may · passive		Claus					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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