Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 69
However, you shall not be frozen for the want of it; here are my mother's large warm mittens; they will reach up to your elbows.
Who acts: large warm mittens, mittens · What happens: not freeze, be, reach up, want · To what, where: you, reindeer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large warm mittens, mittens), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 frozen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 frozen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 frozen | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 frozen | aux:pass |
| 7 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 want | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 want | det |
| 10 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frozen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 frozen | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mittens | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mittens | amod |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mittens | amod |
| 21 | mittens | mitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 here | nsubj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 reach | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reach | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 reach | aux |
| 25 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 frozen | parataxis |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 reach | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 elbows | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 29 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 reach | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not freeze | shall · passive | you | for the want of reindeer; however property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my mother's large warm mittens | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach up | future | mittens = mitten | to your elbows | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | want | reindeer | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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