Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 157

When I have done with the balloon I shall burn it, and for this purpose, you must give me a few pieces of another invention, which will come next; I mean a few chemical matches."

Who acts: I, you, invention · What happens: do, burn, give, come, mean · To what, where: mind, few pieces, me, few chemical matches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. 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, invention), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 burn	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 balloon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 balloon	det
7	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 burn	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 burn	aux
10	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 burn	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 purpose	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 purpose	det
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 purpose	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 burn	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pieces	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pieces	amod
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 invention	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 invention	det
27	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pieces	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 invention	acl:relcl
32	next	next	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 mean	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 mean	nsubj
35	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 burn	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 matches	det
37	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 matches	amod
38	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 matches	amod
39	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mean	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 burn	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 burn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	I			with the balloon	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	shall	I	mind			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	give	must	you	a few pieces of another invention	me	for this purpose	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme for purpose=Asset
4	come	future	another invention			next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	present	I	a few chemical matches			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Topic

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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