Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 17

Thou hast a white frock on; it has cost thy mother much labor, and yet it is only cut down for thee out of an old larger dress!

Who acts: Thou · What happens: have on, cost, cut down · To what, where: white frock, frock, old larger dress

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 hast	nsubj
2	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frock	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frock	amod
5	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hast	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	2 hast	compound:prt
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cost	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cost	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cost	aux
10	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hast	parataxis
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cost	obj
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 labor	amod
14	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 cut	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cut	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	aux:pass
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 cut	advmod
21	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cost	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 thee	case
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 cut	obl
25	out	out	ADP	_	30 dress	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 dress	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dress	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dress	amod
29	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 dress	amod
30	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have on	present	Thou	a white frock				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frock=Patient
2	cost	present · perfect · passive		frock				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mother=Value
3	cut down	present · passive		frock	a old larger dress	yet	for thee	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for thou=Beneficiary

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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