Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 37

Let no man stretch forth a helping hand to her, and let friends and relations avoid her as a plague and a pestilence!"

Who acts: you, man, relations · What happens: let, stretch, help, avoid · To what, where: man, helping hand, widow, friends

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, relations), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 stretch	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hand	det
7	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretch	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stretch	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 let	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 avoid	cc
16	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 avoid	nsubj
17	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 let	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 avoid	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 plague	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 plague	det
21	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 avoid	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pestilence	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pestilence	det
24	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plague	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	no man			tree rules
2	stretch	infinitive	no man not said here	a helping hand	widow	forth property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to she=Result
3	help	gerund					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	let	infinitive		friends			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
5	avoid	present	relations	widow		as a plague and a pestilence	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location

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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