Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 20

Now see; I will place them by the door; some one will take them instead of his own, and he will be the happy man."

Who acts: you, I, one, messenger · What happens: see, place, take, be · To what, where: goloshes, happy man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, one, messenger), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 see	advmod
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 place	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 place	aux
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 place	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 own	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 take	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 man	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 man	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 man	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 man	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 man	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	vocative
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here		now	by the door	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	place	future	I	goloshes = golosh			tree rules
3	take	future	some one	goloshes = golosh		instead messenger's own	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is a	future	messenger	the happy man			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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