Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 11

He ought really to have read it over again, but he could not for want of light.

Who acts: Tuk · What happens: read over, want · To what, where: room, light

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 read	aux
6	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 read	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 want	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 want	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 want	case
16	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 light	case
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 want	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read over	ought · perfect	Tuk	room			again	for want of light	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	want			light					nom want «state transitive»: of=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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