Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 11

He wants to marry me as a maiden, but whether he would have me were I a hand-rammer is a question, so I won't have my name changed."

Who acts: effect, I, name, my · What happens: want, marry, have, be, not have, change · To what, where: me, question

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 (effect, I, name, my), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 maiden	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marry	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 question	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 question	cop
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 question	nsubj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rammer	det
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rammer	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hand	punct
21	rammer	rammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 question	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 question	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 question	det
24	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 have	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 have	advmod
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 question	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 name	nmod:poss
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 changed	nsubj
33	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 have	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	effect			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	effect not said here	me	maiden property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	have	would	effect	me		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is a	past	I	a question		tree rules
5	not have	future	I			tree rules
6	change	past	my name			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	name		my			nom name «communication transitive»: 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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