Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 71
But, before you go away, you must give me my spectacles and my ear-trumpet again."
Who acts: you · What happens: go away, give · To what, where: spectacles, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trumpet | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 trumpet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trumpet | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ear | punct |
| 18 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spectacles | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present | you | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | must | you | my spectacles and my ear trumpet | me | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient spectacle=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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