Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 21

She could not keep me when I was a child; I will not give myself up to her now I am a man."

Who acts: river, I · What happens: not keep, be, not give up · To what, where: me, child, myself, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 child	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 child	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 child	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 give	advmod
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 give	iobj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 give	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obl
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 man	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	could	river	me				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	is a	past	I	a child				tree rules
3	not give up	future	I		myself		to river	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to she=Recipient
4	is a	present	I	a man		now		tree rules

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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