Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 9
They must certainly give you a doctor's hood, and our young ones will inherit it, and their children after them, and so on.
Who acts: princesses, young ones · What happens: give, inherit · To what, where: hood, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses, young ones), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 doctor | case |
| 9 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inherit | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 inherit | cc |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ones | nmod:poss |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 inherit | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 inherit | aux |
| 16 | inherit | inherit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 inherit | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 children | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 children | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obl |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 on | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 on | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 on | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | must | princesses = princess | a doctor's hood | you | princesses's children after children obl; certainly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient hood=Theme | ||
| 2 | inherit | future | our young ones | hood | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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