Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 52

But what will you give me, if I tell you what more you will have to do?

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, tell, have, do · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 tell	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 have	obj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 what	amod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	give	future	you	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	I	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	future	you		tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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