Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 7

I will write a few words on a dried stock-fish, for I have no paper, and you can take it from me to the Finland woman who lives there; she can give you better information than I can."

Who acts: I, you, Finland woman, woman · What happens: write, dry, have, take, live, give · To what, where: few words, paper, Finland woman, better information, you

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Finland woman, woman), 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	3 write	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 words	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	12 fish	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
9	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fish	amod
10	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 stock	punct
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 write	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 paper	det
18	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 woman	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 woman	compound
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lives	nsubj
32	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 woman	acl:relcl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lives	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 information	amod
40	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
41	than	than	SCONJ	_	43 can	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 can	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	future	I	a few words			on a dried stock fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on fish=Destination
2	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	I	no paper				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient
4	take	can	you	paper	the Finland woman		from me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=Initial_Location to woman=Destination
5	live	present	the Finland woman			there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	can	woman	better information	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient information=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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