Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 41
Then I must present you with a farewell gift.
Who acts: I · What happens: present · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 present | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 present | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | aux |
| 4 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 present | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gift | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gift | det |
| 8 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gift | compound |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 present | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | must | I | you | then | with a farewell gift | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with gift=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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