Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 39
"Yes, if you will give me that beautiful ring which you wear on your finger."
Who acts: you · What happens: give, wear · To what, where: beautiful ring, Maiden, finger
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), 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 | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 ring | mark |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ring | amod |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | xcomp |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wear | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ring | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | beautiful ring | Maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | wear in a quote | present | you | beautiful ring | your finger | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=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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