Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 56

You can take my white hair in exchange, which will be something in return."

Who acts: You, exchange · What happens: take, be · To what, where: white hair, exchange, something, return

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, exchange), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 exchange	case
8	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 something	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 something	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 something	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 something	cop
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 exchange	appos
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 return	case
15	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 something	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	can	You	my white hair		exchange			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hair=Value in exchange=Location
2	is a	future	exchange	something		return			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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