Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 42

Children's hearts can also beat; go after yours, perhaps you may know your child's; but what will you give me if I tell you what you shall do more?”

Who acts: hearts, you, I · What happens: beat, go, know, give, tell, do · To what, where: child, me, you, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts, 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hearts	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	aux
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
6	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beat	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 yours	case
10	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 know	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 child	nmod:poss
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	obj
18	's	's	PART	_	17 child	case
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 give	obj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beat	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 tell	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 give	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	ccomp
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 do	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	can	Children's hearts					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	infinitive	Children's hearts not said here			after yours		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	may	you	your child			perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	give	future	you		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
5	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do	shall	you	more				tree rules

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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