Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 15
No, in your case I would surrender my maiden name."
Who acts: I, my · What happens: surrender, name · To what, where: maiden name, case
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 (I, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 surrender | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrender | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 case | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 case | nmod:poss |
| 5 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrender | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 surrender | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 surrender | aux |
| 8 | surrender | surrender | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrender | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrender | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surrender | would | I | my maiden name | your case | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | 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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