Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 101

Give the little boy a cigar, and the little girl a new crinoline; they like that much better.

Who acts: you, children · What happens: give, like · To what, where: little boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, children), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cigar	det
6	cigar	cigar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 girl	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crinoline	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crinoline	amod
14	crinoline	crinoline	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
17	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
18	that	that	ADV	_	17 like	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 better	advmod
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 like	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the little boy					tree rules
2	like	present	children = child					good, that property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

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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