Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 57
These you must gather even while they burn blisters on your hands.
Who acts: These, Quantities · What happens: gather, burn · To what, where: blisters, hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, Quantities), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 gather | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gather | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 gather | aux |
| 4 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 burn | advmod |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 burn | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 burn | nsubj |
| 8 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gather | advcl |
| 9 | blisters | blister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burn | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burn | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | must | These | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn | present | Quantities = quantity | blisters | your hands | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blister=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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