Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 15
Place him upon my apron, and then take what money you please.
Who acts: you · What happens: place, take, money · To what, where: dog, apron, you
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), 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 | Place | place | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Place | obj |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 apron | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 apron | nmod:poss |
| 5 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Place | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Place | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 money | nsubj |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 take | discourse |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | imperative | you not said here | dog | my apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon apron=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | money | 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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