Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 105
Will you have your child back? or shall I carry him away to a place that you do not know?"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have back, carry away, not know · To what, where: child, God, place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 carry | cc |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 know | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have back | future | you | your child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry away | shall | I | God | a place | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | you | a place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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