Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 176

I thank you; you may be the head of the family, as no doubt you are, but I am older than you.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: thank, be · To what, where: you, head

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 (I, you), 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	2 thank	nsubj
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 head	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 head	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 head	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 head	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thank	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 doubt	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 doubt	det
16	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 are	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thank	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 older	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 older	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 older	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 older	cop
23	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 thank	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 older	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	I		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	is a	may	you	the head		of the family	tree rules
3	does	present	you			as no doubt	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	I			than you; old property	tree rules

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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