Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 49

Were I the sunbeam, I would give each one of them a sun stroke; but that would only make them mad, and they are mad enough already.

Who acts: I, that, judges · What happens: be, give, make · To what, where: sunbeam, one, judges

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, judges), 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sunbeam	cop
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sunbeam	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sunbeam	det
4	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sunbeam	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stroke	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stroke	compound
15	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 make	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 make	advmod
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 make	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mad	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mad	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 mad	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 mad	cop
28	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 give	parataxis
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 mad	advmod
30	already	already	ADV	_	28 mad	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	the sunbeam		tree rules
2	give	would	I	each one of judges		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient stroke=Theme
3	make	would	that	judges = judge	mad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
4	is	present	judges = judge		enough, mad 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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