Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 125

Lend!' she exclaimed, 'I have nothing to lend; nothing at all grows in our garden, not even a shrivelled apple; I could not even lend you a shrivelled apple, my dear woman.

Who acts: you, schoolmaster, I, nothing · What happens: lend, exclaim, have, grow, not lend · To what, where: nothing, shrivelled apple, garden, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, schoolmaster, I, nothing), 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	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Lend	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Lend	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exclaimed	nsubj
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Lend	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	ccomp
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 have	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lend	mark
12	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 grows	punct
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 grows	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 nothing	nmod
17	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Lend	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 garden	nmod:poss
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grows	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 apple	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 apple	advmod
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 apple	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 apple	det
25	shrivelled	shrivelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 apple	amod
26	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grows	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 lend	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 lend	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 lend	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 lend	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 lend	advmod
32	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lend	parataxis
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 lend	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 apple	det
35	shrivelled	shrivelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 apple	amod
36	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lend	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 woman	punct
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 woman	nmod:poss
39	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 woman	amod
40	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lend	vocative
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here					vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	exclaim speech: express	past	schoolmaster					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	lend	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here				vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	grow	present	nothing	a shrivelled apple		our garden		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
6	not lend	could	I	a shrivelled apple	you		my dear woman vocative	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient apple=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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