Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 136

Dear Little Claus, I will give you a bushel of money; I will bury your grandmother as if she were my own; only keep silent, or else they will cut off my head, and that would be disagreeable."

Who acts: Dear Little Claus, I, grandmother, florins, that · What happens: give, bury, be, keep, cut off · To what, where: bushel, you, grandmother, head

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 (Dear Little Claus, I, grandmother, florins), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Claus	amod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Claus	amod
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Claus	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bushel	det
10	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 money	case
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bushel	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 bury	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bury	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bury	aux
16	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grandmother	nmod:poss
18	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bury	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 own	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 own	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 own	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 own	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bury	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 keep	advmod
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	conj
28	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 keep	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cut	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 cut	cc
31	else	else	ADV	_	34 cut	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cut	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 cut	aux
34	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 keep	advcl
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 cut	compound:prt
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cut	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 disagreeable	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 disagreeable	cc
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 disagreeable	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 disagreeable	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 disagreeable	cop
43	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 give	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	Dear Little Claus	a bushel of money	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushel=Theme
2	bury	future	I	your grandmother			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
3	is	past	grandmother			own property	tree rules
4	keep	infinitive	Dear Little Claus not said here			silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cut off	future	florins = florin	my head		else property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
6	is	would	that			disagreeable property	tree rules

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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