Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 12

But you need not be at all afraid of him; I will give you my blue checked apron, which you must spread upon the floor, and then boldly seize hold of the dog, and place him upon it.

Who acts: you, I, blue checked apron · What happens: not need, be, give, check, spread, seize · To what, where: all, blue checked apron, you, floor, hold, dog

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. 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, blue checked apron), 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	_	3 need	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 need	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 afraid	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 afraid	obl
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 need	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 afraid	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 apron	nmod:poss
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 apron	amod
18	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 apron	amod
19	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spread	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 spread	nsubj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 spread	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 spread	aux
24	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 apron	acl:relcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 floor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spread	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seize	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seize	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 seize	advmod
31	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 seize	advmod
32	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	conj
33	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seize	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 dog	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dog	det
36	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hold	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 place	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 place	cc
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 place	obj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 place	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	infinitive	you not said here			all		of dog; afraid property	tree rules
3	give	future	I	my blue checked apron	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient apron=Theme
4	check	participle							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	spread	must	my blue checked apron			the floor			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon floor=Location
6	seize	infinitive	I not said here	hold of the dog			then	boldly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
7	hold			the dog					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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