Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 17

I will make you a present of my red shoes, if you will give him back to me.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: make, give back · To what, where: present, you, Kay

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 make	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 present	det
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 shoes	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoes	nmod:poss
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shoes	amod
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 present	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 give	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	I	a present of my red shoes	you				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product
2	give back a condition, not said to happen	future	you		Kay			to me	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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