Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 40

"But must we not all here on earth give up our best parts to others, and offer as much as lies in our power?

What happens: give up, offer · To what, where: best parts, others, earth, much

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: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 here	cc
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 here	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 here	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 here	advmod
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 here	advmod
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 give	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 earth	case
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obl
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 give	compound:prt
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 parts	nmod:poss
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 parts	amod
14	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 others	case
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 parts	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 offer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 offer	cc
19	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 give	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 offer	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 lies	case
23	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 much	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 power	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 power	nmod:poss
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lies	nmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up in a quote	present		our best parts	others	earth; here			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to other=Recipient
2	offer in a quote	infinitive		much					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=Theme

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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