Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 18
If he also is placed upon my apron, he cannot hurt you, and you may take from the chest what gold you will."
Who acts: dog, you · What happens: place, not hurt, take · To what, where: dog, apron, you, chest
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 (dog, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 placed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 placed | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hurt | advcl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 apron | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 apron | nmod:poss |
| 8 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hurt | parataxis |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 chest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chest | det |
| 22 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 chest | nmod |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 will | nsubj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 will | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurt | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | dog | my apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon apron=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | can | dog | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | may | you | the chest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from chest=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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