Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 22
And if it makes others angry, it can't give me any pleasure.
Who acts: jewel · What happens: make, not give · To what, where: others, pleasure, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 makes | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 give | advmod |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 pleasure | det |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | jewel | others | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material other=Product | |||
| 2 | not give | can | jewel | any pleasure | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=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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