Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 38

"Give me one hair--only one single hair--from the head of the sinner for whom the fire shall never be extinguished, of the sinner whom God will condemn to eternal punishment in hell."

Who acts: you, God · What happens: give, not extinguish, condemn · To what, where: one hair, dead woman, fire, sinner, hell

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, God), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hair	nummod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 hair	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 hair	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hair	nummod
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 head	punct
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sinner	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sinner	det
17	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 head	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 whom	case
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 head	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 extinguished	nsubj:pass
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 extinguished	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 extinguished	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 extinguished	aux:pass
25	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 whom	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sinner	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sinner	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sinner	det
29	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 condemn	obj
31	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 condemn	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 condemn	aux
33	condemn	condemn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sinner	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 punishment	case
35	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 punishment	amod
36	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 condemn	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 hell	case
38	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 condemn	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	one hair	the dead woman = woman		one single hair obl	tree rules
2	not extinguish in a quote	shall · passive		the fire				vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	condemn in a quote	future	God	the sinner		hell	to eternal punishment	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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