Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 23
"Give me your hand," said the maiden; "I will help you to mount."
Who acts: you, Rudy · What happens: give, say, help, mount · To what, where: hand, me, maiden, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Rudy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 mount | mark |
| 18 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 help | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your hand | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | future | Rudy | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mount in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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