Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 35
I don't want to be disgusted," he said to himself, "and yet I can't help it."
Who acts: I, fact · What happens: not want, disgust, say, not help · To what, where: fact, idea · Speech: someone speaks here
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, fact), 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 | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 disgusted | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 disgusted | aux:pass |
| 7 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 want | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 help | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disgust not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | fact | fact | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not help | can | I | idea | yet | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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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