Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 43
You really do need something to give you a little warmth, and yet spiteful people cry out about the few drops you take."
Who acts: You, spiteful people · What happens: need, give, cry out, take · To what, where: something, little warmth, you, few drops
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, spiteful people), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 need | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 warmth | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warmth | amod |
| 11 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cry | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 spiteful | advmod |
| 15 | spiteful | spiteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cry | nsubj |
| 17 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cry | compound:prt |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 drops | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 drops | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 drops | amod |
| 22 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cry | obl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drops | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · do-support | You | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | You not said here | a little warmth | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient warmth=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | present | spiteful people | about the few drops | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about drop=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take | present | you | the few drops not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme |
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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