Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 34

Give me a little more, and you may have a sip too, but only a sip; you must not get used to it, my poor, dear child."

Who acts: you · What happens: give, have, not use · To what, where: more, me, sip, you

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), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 more	obl:unmarked
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sip	det
12	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	too	too	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sip	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 sip	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 sip	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sip	det
18	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj:pass
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 used	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 used	advmod
23	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	aux:pass
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Give	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 used	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 poor	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 poor	nmod:poss
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 used	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 child	punct
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poor	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	more	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=Theme
2	have	may	you	a sip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sip=Patient
3	not use	must · passive		you	sip	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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