Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 49
I can do it in Egypt, where I can be a companion of the people, without forgetting myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, be, forget · To what, where: yard, Egypt, companion, myself
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Egypt | case |
| 6 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 companion | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 companion | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 companion | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 companion | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 companion | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 companion | det |
| 13 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Egypt | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 companion | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgetting | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 forgetting | mark |
| 19 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 do | advcl |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 forgetting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | yard | Egypt | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | can | I | a companion | of the people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | forget | gerund | I not said here | myself | tree rules |
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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