Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 148

"Give me something of thy freshness, thou green grass," implored the Dryad; "give me one of thy fragrant flowers."

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: give, grass, implore · To what, where: something, living water, Dryad, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 freshness	case
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 freshness	nmod:poss
7	freshness	freshness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grass	punct
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 grass	nsubj
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 implored	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 implored	punct
14	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Dryad	det
16	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 implored	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 give	iobj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 flowers	case
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 flowers	nmod:poss
24	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flowers	amod
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	something	no living water = water	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
2	grass in a quote		thou			tree rules
3	implore	past	you not said here		the Dryad	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dryad=Recipient
4	give in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		one of thy fragrant flowers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=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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