Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 77

Give me human life, human happiness, only a short span, only the one night, if it cannot be otherwise; and then punish me for my wish to live, my longing for life!

Who acts: you, life, my · What happens: give, not be, punish, live, wish, long · To what, where: human life, me, longing

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, life, my), 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	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 life	amod
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 happiness	punct
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 happiness	amod
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 life	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 span	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 span	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 span	det
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 span	amod
12	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 night	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 night	nummod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 span	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 otherwise	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 otherwise	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 otherwise	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 otherwise	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 otherwise	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 otherwise	cop
24	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 punish	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 punish	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 punish	advmod
28	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 punish	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 wish	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wish	nmod:poss
32	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 punish	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 live	mark
34	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 punish	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 longing	punct
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 longing	nmod:poss
37	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 live	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 life	case
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 longing	nmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	human life and human happiness	me		a short span obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	can	life				otherwise property	tree rules
3	punish	infinitive	you not said here	me		then	for my wish	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Patient for wish=Theme
4	live	to-infinitive	you not said here	my longing for life				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish		my					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	long		my				for life	nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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