Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 12
Thou must sell thyself, thy wife, and thy children.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: sell · To what, where: thyself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | aux |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 3 sell | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 children | cc |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wife | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | must | Thou | thyself | thy wife and thy children obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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