Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 150
“When one has drunk two good cupfuls of Elder-flower tea, 'tis likely enough one goes into warm climates”; and she tucked him up nicely, least he should take cold.
Who acts: enough one, tis, man · What happens: drink, go, tuck up, take · To what, where: one, tis, warm climates, man, cold
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough one, tis, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 drunk | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 drunk | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | PronType=Ind | 5 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drunk | aux |
| 5 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cupfuls | nummod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cupfuls | amod |
| 8 | cupfuls | cupful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drunk | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tea | case |
| 10 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tea | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Elder | punct |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tea | compound |
| 13 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cupfuls | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tis | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tis | punct |
| 16 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cupfuls | conj |
| 17 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 18 enough | advmod |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tis | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 climates | case |
| 22 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 climates | amod |
| 23 | climates | climate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 goes | obl |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 climates | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 tucked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tucked | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tucked | nsubj |
| 28 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drunk | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tucked | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 tucked | compound:prt |
| 31 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 28 tucked | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 least | punct |
| 33 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 tucked | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 take | aux |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 tucked | ccomp |
| 37 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in a quote | present · perfect · passive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | enough one | tis not said here | warm climates | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tis=Theme | |||
| 3 | tuck up | past | tis | man | least obl; nicely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | should | man | cold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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