The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 69

I can’t appear like this before my own people.

Who acts: I · What happens: not appear

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. 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	4 appear	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 appear	advmod
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 appear	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 people	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not appear	can	I				before my own people	like this	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before people=Location

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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