Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 75
"Take from me the years that were destined for me, and give me but half of the life of the ephemeral fly!
Who acts: you · What happens: take, destine, give · To what, where: years, Notre
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 destined | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 destined | aux:pass |
| 9 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 years | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 destined | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 half | cc |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 14 give | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 half | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fly | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fly | det |
| 23 | ephemeral | ephemeral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fly | amod |
| 24 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 life | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | year | from Notre | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from i=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | destine in a quote | past · passive | the years | for Notre | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Notre | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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