Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 9

I will prepare a draught for you, with which you must swim to land tomorrow before sunrise, and sit down on the shore and drink it.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: prepare, swim, land, sit down, drink · To what, where: draught, shore

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 prepare	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prepare	aux
3	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 draught	det
5	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prepare	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 prepare	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swim	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 swim	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 swim	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 swim	aux
13	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 prepare	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 land	mark
15	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 swim	xcomp
16	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 land	obl:unmarked
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 sunrise	case
18	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 land	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sit	cc
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 prepare	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sit	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shore	det
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drink	cc
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sit	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drink	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prepare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	future	I	a draught			for you	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent draught=Product for you=Beneficiary
2	swim	must	you					tree rules
3	land	to-infinitive	you not said here			sunrise; tomorrow		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	infinitive	I not said here		the shore			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
5	drink	infinitive	I not said here	draught				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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