Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 57

“But place yourself here, and when Death comes--I expect him every moment--do not let him pluck the flower up, but threaten him that you will do the same with the others.

Who acts: Death, old woman, you · What happens: come, expect, not let, pluck up, threaten, do · To what, where: Death, flower, same

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, old woman, you), 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 here	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 place	cc
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	nsubj
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 place	nmod
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 comes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 comes	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 comes	advmod
9	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	parataxis
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 expect	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 expect	nsubj
13	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 comes	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 expect	obj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expect	obl:unmarked
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 let	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 let	advmod
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 expect	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flower	det
24	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pluck	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	22 pluck	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 threaten	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 threaten	cc
28	threaten	threaten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 let	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 threaten	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 do	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 threaten	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 same	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 do	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 others	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 others	det
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 do	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	Death				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	expect in a quote	present	the old woman = woman	Death	moment		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not let in a quote	infinitive · do-support		Death			tree rules
4	pluck up in a quote	infinitive	Death not said here	the flower			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
5	threaten in a quote	infinitive		Death			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	do in a quote	future	you	the same		with the others	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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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