Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 93

Then the old goblin said, "Hold fast what you have: this hand is yours; for I will have you for a wife myself."

Who acts: old goblin, you, hand · What happens: say, hold, have, be · To what, where: yours, you · 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 (old goblin, you, hand), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goblin	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goblin	amod
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Hold	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Hold	punct
8	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 Hold	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 Hold	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 yours	punct
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 hand	det
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 yours	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 yours	cop
17	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 said	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wife	det
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 wife	nmod:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old goblin		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hold in a quote	infinitive				fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	this hand	yours			tree rules
5	have in a quote	future	the old goblin = goblin	you		for a wife myself	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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