Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 10

Let me get at thee!" she cried; "let me get at thee, that I may plunge this knife into thy body.

Who acts: you, me, garment, I · What happens: let, get, cry, plunge · To what, where: me, thee, knife, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (you, me, garment, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 thee	case
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 get	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 get	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 thee	case
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plunge	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 plunge	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 plunge	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 plunge	aux
21	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	conj
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 knife	det
23	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plunge	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 body	case
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 body	nmod:poss
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plunge	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
2	get	infinitive	me not said here		thee	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	garment			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
5	get	infinitive	me not said here		thee	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	plunge	may	I	this knife	thy body	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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