Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 129
I have given you gold and costly presents; I have even hung my golden slipper round your neck.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, hang · To what, where: gold, you, golden slipper
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 presents | cc |
| 7 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 presents | amod |
| 8 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hung | aux |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 hung | advmod |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 given | parataxis |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 slipper | nmod:poss |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slipper | amod |
| 16 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | gold and costly presents | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gold=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | present · perfect | I | my golden slipper | round your neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Patient |
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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