Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 69

“I am His gardener, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land; but how they grow there, and how it is there I dare not tell thee.”

Who acts: Death, trees, land · What happens: be, take, plant out, grow, not dare, not tell · To what, where: gardener, flowers, trees, great garden, thee · 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 (Death, trees, land), 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 gardener	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gardener	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gardener	cop
4	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gardener	nmod:poss
5	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gardener	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 flowers	det:predet
10	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 flowers	nmod:poss
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trees	cc
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flowers	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plant	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 plant	cc
16	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 take	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 plant	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 plant	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 garden	amod
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plant	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Paradise	case
24	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 garden	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 land	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 land	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 land	det
28	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 land	amod
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plant	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 grow	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 grow	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 grow	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grow	nsubj
34	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	conj
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 grow	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 there	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 there	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 there	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 there	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 there	cop
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 grow	conj
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 dare	nsubj
43	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 there	parataxis
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 dare	advmod
45	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 dare	xcomp
46	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	45 tell	iobj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Death	Death's gardener				tree rules
2	take in a quote	present	Death	Death's flowers and trees				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
3	plant out in a quote	infinitive	Death not said here	trees = tree		the great garden of Paradise	in the unknown land	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination
4	grow in a quote	present	trees = tree			there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	land				there property	tree rules
6	not dare in a quote	present	Death					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Death not said here		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient

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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