Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 46
You shall have my white hair instead, and that's always something!”
Who acts: You, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: white hair, something
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, that), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hair | amod |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 something | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 something | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 something | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 something | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 something | advmod |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 have | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 something | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | my white hair | instead property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | something | always property | 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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