Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 58
"I mean to go every day," said he, "to see if anything comes to pass;" and so he did.
Who acts: Egypt, anything · What happens: mean, go, say, see, come, pass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egypt, anything), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mean | xcomp |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 comes | mark |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pass | mark |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 comes | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 did | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | Egypt | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Egypt not said here | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Egypt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | anything | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pass in a quote | to-infinitive | anything not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | do | past | Egypt | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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