Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 42

Yes; as you see, I can even venture under the rays of the lamp, in front of the picture of the Madonna, but I may not enter the church; still from without, and while you are upon my back, I may look in through the open door.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, venture, not enter, be, look in, ray · To what, where: rays, church, lamp

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 venture	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 venture	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 venture	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 venture	aux
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 venture	advmod
10	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 rays	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rays	det
13	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 venture	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 lamp	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lamp	det
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rays	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 front	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 venture	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 picture	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 picture	det
22	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 front	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Madonna	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Madonna	det
25	Madonna	Madonna	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 picture	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enter	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 enter	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 enter	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 enter	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 enter	advmod
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 venture	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 church	det
33	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 enter	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 still	punct
35	still	still	ADV	_	10 venture	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 without	case
37	without	without	ADP	_	35 still	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 look	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 look	cc
40	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 back	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 back	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 back	cop
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 back	case
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 back	nmod:poss
45	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 look	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 back	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 look	nsubj
48	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 look	aux
49	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 venture	parataxis
50	in	in	ADV	_	49 look	advmod
51	through	through	ADP	_	54 door	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 door	det
53	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 door	amod
54	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 look	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	venture	can	I		the rays of the lamp	still	in front of the picture of the Madonna	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	not enter	may	I	the church				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination
4	is	present	you				upon my back	tree rules
5	look in	may	I				through the open door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme
6	ray			the lamp				nom ray «phenomenon 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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