Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 31

I will lend it to you,' said I, 'but not to keep.'

Who acts: I · What happens: lend, say, not keep · To what, where: skewer, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lend	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lend	aux
3	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lend	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lend	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lend	parataxis
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lend	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 lend	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 keep	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 keep	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lend	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lend	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	lend	future	I	skewer	you	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not keep	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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