Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 41
You certainly know that every person has his or her life's tree or flower, just as everyone happens to be settled; they look like other plants, but they have pulsations of the heart.
Who acts: You, person, everyone, trees · What happens: know, have, happen, settle, look, pulsate · To what, where: tree, pulsations, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, person, everyone, trees), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 has | mark |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tree | nmod:poss |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 tree | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 life | case |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 flower | cc |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happens | punct |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 happens | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 happens | mark |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 happens | nsubj |
| 20 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 settled | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 settled | aux:pass |
| 23 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 happens | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 look | nsubj |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 plants | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 plants | amod |
| 29 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 have | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 look | conj |
| 34 | pulsations | pulsation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 have | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 heart | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heart | det |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pulsations | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | every person | person's tree or flower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | settle | to-infinitive · passive | everyone not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | look | present | trees = tree | like other plants | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | have | present | trees = tree | pulsations of the heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulsation=Patient | ||||
| 7 | pulsate | the heart | nom pulsation «event transitive»: of=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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