Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 86

The most wonderful fairy tales grow out of that which is reality; were that not the case, you know, my magnificent Elderbush could not have grown out of the tea-pot.”

Who acts: wonderful fairy tales, that, you, magnificent Elderbush · What happens: grow out, be, not be, know, not grow out · To what, where: reality, case, tea pot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wonderful fairy tales, that, you, magnificent Elderbush), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tales	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 wonderful	advmod
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tales	compound
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	12 reality	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 reality	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 reality	nsubj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 reality	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reality	cop
12	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 case	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 case	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 case	mark
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 case	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 case	det
18	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Elderbush	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Elderbush	nmod:poss
24	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Elderbush	amod
25	Elderbush	Elderbush	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 grown	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 grown	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 grown	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 grown	aux
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 know	ccomp
30	out	out	ADP	_	35 pot	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 pot	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pot	det
33	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pot	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 tea	punct
35	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grown	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow out	present	the wonderful fairy tales			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reality=Theme
2	is	present	that		reality	tree rules
3	not is a	past		the case		tree rules
4	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not grow out	could · perfect	my magnificent Elderbush	the tea pot		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=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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