Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 25

Put out your little tongue that I may cut it off as my payment; then you shall have the powerful draught."

Who acts: you, little tongue, my · What happens: put out, cut off, have, pay · To what, where: little tongue, tongue, powerful draught

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little tongue, 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tongue	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tongue	amod
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cut	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cut	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tongue	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 payment	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 payment	nmod:poss
14	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 have	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Put	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 draught	det
21	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 draught	amod
22	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put out	imperative	you not said here	your little tongue			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal
2	cut off	may	your little tongue	tongue		as my payment	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
3	have	shall	you	the powerful draught	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient
4	pay		my				nom payment «possession transitive»: 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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