Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 182
I cannot allow you to say thou to me; I will gladly say it to you, and therefore your wish will be half fulfilled."
Who acts: I, your · What happens: not allow, say, fulfil, wish · To what, where: you, thou, me, feeling, wish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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 | 4 allow | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 allow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allow | advmod |
| 4 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allow | xcomp |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allow | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 say | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fulfilled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fulfilled | cc |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 27 fulfilled | advmod |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wish | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fulfilled | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 26 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 27 fulfilled | advmod |
| 27 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 say | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allow | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | can | I | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | thou | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | future | I | feeling | you | gladly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient | ||
| 4 | fulfil | future · passive | your wish | half, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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