Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 45
"Give me my crown," said the elf king, "and let me stand in the moonshine."
Who acts: elf king, my · What happens: give, say, let, stand, crown · To what, where: crown, elf king, moonshine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf king, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 crown | nmod:poss |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 moonshine | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moonshine | det |
| 20 | moonshine | moonshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stand | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | my crown | the elf king = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient crown=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the elf king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the elf king not said here | the elf king = king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | infinitive | the elf king = king not said here | the moonshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moonshine=Location | ||||
| 5 | crown in a quote | my | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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