Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 91
You can give an answer, and you have something to say for yourself, and so you shall be my husband.
Who acts: You · What happens: give, have, say, be · To what, where: answer, something, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 yourself | case |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 say | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 husband | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 husband | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 husband | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 husband | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 husband | cop |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | You | a answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | something not said here | for yourself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | shall | you | my husband | tree rules |
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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