Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 23
“Yes, if a fairy tale would come of its own accord; but they are proud and haughty, and come only when they choose.
Who acts: fairy tale, tales · What happens: come, be, choose
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 (fairy tale, tales), 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 | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | compound |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 accord | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 accord | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 accord | amod |
| 13 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 proud | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 proud | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 proud | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 proud | cop |
| 18 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 come | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 haughty | cc |
| 20 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 proud | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 proud | conj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 choose | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 choose | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 choose | nsubj |
| 27 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | would | a fairy tale | of pot's own accord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of accord=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | tales = tale | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | tales = tale not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | tales = tale not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | choose in a quote | present | tales = tale | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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