Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 25

She has given us a knife: here it is, see it is very sharp.

Who acts: hair, help · What happens: give, be, see · To what, where: knife, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, help), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 given	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 here	punct
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 given	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 here	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 here	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 given	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sharp	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sharp	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 sharp	advmod
16	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 see	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · perfect	hair	a knife	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient knife=Theme
2	is	present	help			here property	tree rules
3	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	help			sharp 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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