Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 42
"That is nothing to you," replied the witch; "you have the money, now give me the tinder-box."
Who acts: That, nothing, you · What happens: be, reply, have, give · To what, where: nothing, you, witch, money, tinder box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, nothing, 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 give | advmod |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 box | det |
| 23 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 box | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 tinder | punct |
| 25 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | nothing | you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | nothing | the witch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | the money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the tinder box | nothing | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient box=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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