Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 83
Strike at them boldly, and you'll have carnival cake, on which you can support yourself and your wife too."
Who acts: you · What happens: have, support · To what, where: carnival cake, yourself
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 | Strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | dislocated |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Strike | nmod |
| 4 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Strike | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | carnival | carnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cake | compound |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 support | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 support | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 support | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 support | aux |
| 17 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 support | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wife | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yourself | conj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 support | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | carnival cake | Strike at writings dislocated | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 2 | support | can | you | yourself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus |
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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