Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 218
I'll grant you an old bung from my cask that will open the cupboard where poetry's kept in bottles, and you may take from that whatever may be wanting.
Who acts: I, cask, you · What happens: grant, open, keep, take, want · To what, where: old bung, you, cupboard, poetry, bottles, that
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 (I, cask, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grant | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grant | aux |
| 3 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 grant | obj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bung | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bung | amod |
| 7 | bung | bung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grant | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cask | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cask | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bung | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 open | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | aux |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cask | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cupboard | det |
| 15 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 kept | advmod |
| 17 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 poetry | case |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cupboard | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bottles | case |
| 21 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kept | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 take | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 take | aux |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grant | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 take | obl |
| 29 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 wanting | obj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 wanting | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wanting | aux |
| 32 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 take | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | future | I | a old bung | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal bung=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | future | my cask | the cupboard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle · passive | poetry | bottles | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in bottle=Location | ||||
| 4 | take | may | you | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from that=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | want | may · progressive | you not said here | whatever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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