Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 18
Come to me to-morrow, and I'll give you a New Year's present.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, give · To what, where: me, morrow, present, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Year | det |
| 14 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Year | compound |
| 15 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 present | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Year | case |
| 17 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | me | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location to morrow=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | a New Year's present | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient present=Theme |
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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