Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 124

Will you come and drive them away, that we may have a good night's rest?' and then they sigh so deeply and say, 'We would gladly pay you for it.

Who acts: you, we, deeds · What happens: come, drive away, have, sigh, say, pay · To what, where: deeds, rest, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, deeds), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drive	cc
5	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drive	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 drive	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	amod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rest	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 night	case
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sigh	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sigh	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sigh	nsubj
23	sigh	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 deeply	advmod
25	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	23 sigh	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 say	cc
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sigh	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pay	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 pay	punct
30	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 pay	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 pay	aux
32	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	33 pay	advmod
33	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	ccomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 pay	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pay	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive away	infinitive	you not said here	deeds = deed		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
3	have	may	we	a good night's rest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
4	sigh	present	deeds = deed		then	deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	deeds = deed not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pay	would	We	you		for rest; gladly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for it=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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