Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 19
"Yes, if you can guess what it is," said Kribble-Krabble, "I'll make you a present of it."
Who acts: you, name, Kribble · What happens: guess, be, say, make · To what, where: present, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, name, Kribble), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 guess | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 guess | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 guess | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 guess | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 guess | aux |
| 7 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 guess | obj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 what | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guess | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 guess | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Kribble | Kribble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Krabble | punct |
| 16 | Krabble | Krabble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kribble | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 present | det |
| 24 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 present | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kribble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | Kribble | a present of name | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product |
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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