Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 135
You are bound to me by no promises; and if in your heart you have given me one, I release you from it.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, give, release · To what, where: me, one, heart, you
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | cop |
| 3 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bound | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 promises | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 promises | det |
| 8 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bound | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 given | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bound | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 given | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 release | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 release | nsubj |
| 22 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 release | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 release | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | me | by no promises; bound property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | you | one | me | your heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | ||
| 3 | release | present | I | you | heart | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source |
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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