Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 25
If a thing is to be done well," said she, "I must do it myself."
Who acts: Viking, I · What happens: do, say · To what, where: thing · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Viking, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | advcl |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 done | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 do | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a thing | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Viking | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | must | I | thing | myself obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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