Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 133

Ask your own heart, Christina, and think over carefully what awaits you if you take me for your husband, for I possess very little in the world.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: ask, think over, await, take, possess · To what, where: own heart, you, me, little, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. 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), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heart	amod
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Christina	punct
6	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heart	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 think	cc
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	ccomp
10	over	over	ADV	_	11 carefully	advmod
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 think	advmod
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 awaits	nsubj
13	awaits	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 think	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 awaits	obj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 take	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
17	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 awaits	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 husband	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 possess	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 possess	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 possess	nsubj
25	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 take	conj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 little	advmod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 possess	obl:unmarked
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 possess	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	your own heart			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent heart=Recipient clause=Topic
2	think over speech: other	infinitive				carefully property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	await	present		you			tree rules
4	take a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me		for your husband	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for husband=Beneficiary
5	possess	present	I	little	the world		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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