Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 121
Will you, then, marry a maiden who honors and esteems you, although she cannot offer you her love? but that may come.' '
Who acts: you, maiden, following Sunday, that · What happens: marry, honor, esteem, not offer, come, love · To what, where: maiden, you, love
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden, following Sunday, that), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 marry | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 you | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 marry | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 marry | punct |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marry | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 honors | nsubj |
| 10 | honors | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 esteems | cc |
| 12 | esteems | esteem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 honors | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 esteems | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offer | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 offer | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 offer | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 offer | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 offer | advmod |
| 19 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 marry | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 offer | iobj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offer | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 offer | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 marry | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | future | you | a maiden | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | |||
| 2 | honor | present | a maiden | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | esteem | present | a maiden not said here | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not offer | can | following Sunday = sunday | following Sunday's love | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal love=Theme | |||
| 5 | come | may | that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | love | following Sunday = sunday | nom love «feeling 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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