Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 19
It is done to annoy me, so I intend to go out into the world and seek my fortune."
Who acts: I · What happens: do, annoy, intend, go out, seek · To what, where: reason, me, world, fortune
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 annoy | mark |
| 5 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 done | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 annoy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 intend | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 intend | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 intend | nsubj |
| 10 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 intend | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seek | cc |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | annoy | to-infinitive | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | my fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
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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