Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 37

“Have the kindness to step in.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, step in · To what, where: kindness

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kindness	det
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 step	mark
6	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kindness	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 step	compound:prt
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the kindness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Patient
2	step in in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the kindness not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «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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