Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 45

“But you can give me your long black hair; you know yourself that it is fine, and that I like!

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: give, know, be, like · To what, where: long black hair, woman, yourself

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 (you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 know	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 fine	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fine	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fine	cop
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 know	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 like	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 like	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
23	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	can	you	your long black hair	the woman = woman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hair=Theme
2	know in a quote	present	you	yourself			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	you not said here			fine property	tree rules
4	like in a quote	present	the woman = woman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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