Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 40

Many flowers and trees have withered this night; Death will soon come and plant them over again!

Who acts: Death · What happens: wither, come, plant over · To what, where: Many flowers, trees

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 withered	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 trees	cc
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flowers	conj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 withered	aux
6	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 withered	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 withered	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 plant	cc
15	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 plant	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	15 plant	compound:prt
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 plant	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 withered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wither	present · perfect · passive		Many flowers and trees	night		tree rules
2	come	future	Death			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	plant over	infinitive	Death not said here	trees = tree	again		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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