Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 10

"My lover would be ready to give up his engagement," said the youngest, who was betrothed to a paver's hammer; and the hammer is the thing which drives great piles into the earth, like a machine, and therefore does on a large scale what ten maidens effect in a similar way. "

Who acts: lover, hammer, thing, news · What happens: be, give up, say, betroth, drive, do · To what, where: engagement, hammer, thing, great piles, earth, large scale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, hammer, thing, news), 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	_	6 ready	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lover	nmod:poss
3	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	cop
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 give	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 engagement	nmod:poss
11	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youngest	det
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 betrothed	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 betrothed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 betrothed	aux:pass
20	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 youngest	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 hammer	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 paver	det
23	paver	paver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hammer	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 paver	case
25	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 betrothed	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 thing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thing	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hammer	det
29	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thing	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 thing	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 drives	nsubj
34	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 thing	acl:relcl
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 piles	amod
36	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 drives	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 earth	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 earth	det
39	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drives	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 machine	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 machine	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 machine	det
43	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drives	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 does	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 does	cc
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	47 does	advmod
47	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 scale	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 scale	det
50	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 scale	amod
51	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 does	obl
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 scale	conj
53	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 maidens	nummod
54	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 effect	compound
55	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 what	nsubj
56	in	in	ADP	_	59 way	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 way	det
58	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 way	amod
59	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 effect	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 does	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	My lover				ready property	tree rules
2	give up in a quote	to-infinitive	My lover not said here	news's engagement				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Source
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	betroth	past · passive			a paver's hammer			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hammer=Recipient
5	is a	present	the hammer	the thing				tree rules
6	drive	present	the thing	great piles		the earth	like a machine	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pile=Theme into earth=Trajectory
7	do	present				a large scale	therefore property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	engage in a quote		news					nom engagement «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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