Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 50
But here I cannot go and peep into the pots and kettles as I do there.
Who acts: I · What happens: not go, peep, do
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 peep | cc |
| 8 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pots | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pots | det |
| 11 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peep | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kettles | cc |
| 13 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pots | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 peep | advcl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | can | I | here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peep | infinitive | I not said here | into the pots and kettles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | I | there | 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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