Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 7

"Your headstrong will requires severity to conquer it," her mother often said to her. "

Who acts: headstrong, mother · What happens: require, conquer, say · To what, where: severity, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headstrong, mother), 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	_	5 requires	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 headstrong	nmod:poss
3	headstrong	headstrong	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 requires	aux
5	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	severity	severity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 conquer	mark
8	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 requires	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 conquer	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 requires	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 requires	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 requires	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 requires	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	require in a quote	future	Your headstrong	severity			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent severity=Recipient clause=Topic
2	conquer in a quote	to-infinitive	Your headstrong not said here	severity			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	child's mother		child	often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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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