Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 24

I can bend the boys together, and put them in the sacks without any resistance on their parts, I can tell you.

Who acts: I · What happens: bend, put, tell · To what, where: boys, sacks, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. 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 bend	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bend	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 bend	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bend	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sacks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sacks	det
13	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obl
14	without	without	ADP	_	16 resistance	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 resistance	det
16	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 parts	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 parts	nmod:poss
19	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 resistance	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bend	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	can	I	the boys			together property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent boy=Material
2	put	infinitive	I not said here	sacks = sack		the sacks	without any resistance on sacks's parts	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in sack=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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