Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 16
You have given the world all that you had in you; whether it was of much importance is a question that I have not had time to think about.
Who acts: You, world, much importance, I · What happens: give, have, be, not have, think about · To what, where: world, that, question
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, world, much importance, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 had | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 had | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 question | punct |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 importance | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 importance | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 importance | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 importance | case |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 importance | amod |
| 18 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 question | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 question | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 question | det |
| 21 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 had | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 had | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 had | advmod |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 question | acl:relcl |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 think | mark |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 time | acl |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 think | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | You | the world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you | that | in you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | world | of much importance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | much importance | a question | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not have | present · perfect | I | a question | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 6 | think about speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | about property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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