Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 31

"Have you any milk in the house?" he asked; "if so, give me some to drink; my thirst is intolerable."

Who acts: you, Rudy, thirst, my · What happens: have, ask, give, drink, be, thirst · To what, where: milk, house, some, Rudy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. 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, thirst, my), 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 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 milk	det
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 so	mark
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 give	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 give	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 drink	mark
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 some	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 intolerable	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 thirst	nmod:poss
25	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 intolerable	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 intolerable	cop
27	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 give	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	any milk		the house		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Rudy					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive		some	Rudy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme
4	drink in a quote	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	my thirst				intolerable property	tree rules
6	thirst in a quote		my					nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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