Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 127

Will you take her a glass of mead? but you must speak very loud, for she cannot hear well."

Who acts: you, grandmother · What happens: take, speak, not hear · To what, where: grandmother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grandmother), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mead	case
8	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 loud	advmod
15	loud	loud	ADV	_	13 speak	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 hear	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 hear	advmod
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hear	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	future	you	grandmother		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme glass=Destination
2	speak speech: other	must	you		loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not hear	can	grandmother		well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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