Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 47
"'Shall I go with you?' asked Babette; 'it will give you courage.'
Who acts: parlor cat, canton · What happens: go, ask, give · To what, where: Babette, courage, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlor cat, canton), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 3 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | advcl |
| 11 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | shall | the parlor cat at the miller's house = cat | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the parlor cat at the miller's house = cat not said here | Babette | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent babette=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | canton | courage | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient courage=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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