Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 90

You gave all you possessed that he might rest in his grave; I am that man."

Who acts: You, man, I · What happens: give, possess, rest, be · To what, where: all, grave, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, man, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 gave	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 possessed	nsubj
5	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 all	acl:relcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 rest	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rest	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 rest	aux
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 possessed	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 grave	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grave	nmod:poss
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 man	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 man	cop
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	You	all		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
2	possess	past	you			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	rest	might	man		man's grave	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in grave=Location
4	is a	present	I	that man		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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