Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 90
“Wilt thou have thy child again, or shall I go with it there, where thou dost not know!”
Who acts: thou, Death · What happens: have, go, not know · To what, where: child
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 (thou, Death), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 child | nmod:poss |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 go | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 know | advmod |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | thou | thy child | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | shall | Death | there | with child | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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