Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 59

He is responsible for them to OUR LORD, and no one dares to pluck them up before HE gives leave.”

Who acts: Death, one, HE · What happens: be, dare, pluck up, give, leave · To what, where: LORD, others

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 (Death, one, HE), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 responsible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 responsible	cop
3	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 responsible	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 LORD	case
7	OUR	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 LORD	nmod:poss
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 responsible	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dares	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dares	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dares	nsubj
13	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 responsible	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pluck	mark
15	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dares	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pluck	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 pluck	compound:prt
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 gives	mark
19	HE	HE	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 gives	nsubj
20	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pluck	advcl
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gives	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 dares	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 dares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Death		OUR LORD	for others = other; responsible property	tree rules
2	dare	present	no one				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pluck up	to-infinitive	no one not said here	others = other			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	give	present	HE				tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	HE not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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