Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 101

I will give you a few words from me, which I will write on a dried haberdine, for paper I have none; this you can take with you to the Finland woman, and she will be able to give you more information than I can.”

Who acts: I, this, woman · What happens: give, write, dry, have, take, be · To what, where: few words, you, dried haberdine, none, more information

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, woman), 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 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 words	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 write	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 write	nsubj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 write	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 write	aux
14	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 haberdine	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 haberdine	det
17	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 haberdine	amod
18	haberdine	haberdine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 write	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 paper	case
21	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 write	conj
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 have	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 take	nsubj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 take	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 take	aux
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 take	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 woman	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 woman	det
34	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 woman	compound
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 able	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 able	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 able	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 able	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	cop
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 give	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 give	mark
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 give	iobj
45	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 information	amod
46	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
47	than	than	SCONJ	_	49 can	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 can	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 information	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	a few words	you		from me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient word=Theme
2	write	future				a dried haberdine		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on haberdine=Destination
3	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	have	present	I	none			for paper	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
5	take	can	this				with you; to the Finland woman result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result
6	is	future	woman				able property	tree rules
7	give	to-infinitive	woman not said here	more information	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient information=Theme

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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