Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 54

"I can give you nothing to do for me there," said the old woman; "but you can give me your long black hair.

Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: give, do, say · To what, where: nothing, you, long black hair, old woman · 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 (old woman, you), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 do	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hair	amod
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hair	amod
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	can	the old woman = woman	nothing	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Theme
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the old woman = woman not said here	nothing not said here		there	for the old woman = woman	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	can	you	your long black hair	the old woman = woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hair=Theme

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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