Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 52

That feather you shall have; a better was never given to any poet, it will be quite enough for you.'

Who acts: feather, opportunity · What happens: have, not give, be · To what, where: poet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feather, opportunity), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 given	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 a	xcomp
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 given	aux:pass
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 given	advmod
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 poet	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 poet	det
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 given	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 enough	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 enough	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 enough	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 enough	advmod
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 given	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 given	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	shall	that feather			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not give	past · passive		any poet	for you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: to poet=Recipient for you=Asset
3	is	future	opportunity		enough property	tree rules

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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