Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 53

"I have nothing to give," said the afflicted mother; "but I would go to the ends of the earth for you."

Who acts: afflicted mother · What happens: have, give, say, afflict, go · To what, where: nothing, ends · 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 (afflicted mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
11	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 mother	amod
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ends	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ends	det
21	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 earth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earth	det
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ends	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the afflicted mother = mother	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	give in a quote	to-infinitive	the afflicted mother = mother not said here	nothing not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the afflicted mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	afflict	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	go in a quote	would	the afflicted mother = mother		to the ends of the earth	for you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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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