--- title: Give me human life, human happiness, only a short span, only the one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Give me human life, human happiness, only a short span, only the one night, if it cannot be otherwise; and then punish me for my wish to live, my longing for life! Who acts: you, life, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, life, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:25:77 # text = Give me human life, human happiness, only a short span, only the one night, if it cannot be otherwise; and then punish me for my wish to live, my longing for life! 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 span span NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 punish punish VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 longing longing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | human life and human happiness | me | | | a short span *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | life | | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **punish** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | then | for my wish | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Patient for wish=Theme | | 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my longing for life | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wish** | | my | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **long** | | my | | | | | for life | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/78/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/)