Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 76

Take them again, they are now brighter than before; now look down into the deep well close by; I shall tell thee the names of the two flowers thou wouldst have torn up, and thou wilt see their whole future life--their whole human existence: and see what thou wast about to disturb and destroy.”

Who acts: you, eyes, I, two flowers, thou · What happens: take, be, look down, tell, tear up, see · To what, where: eyes, names, thee, thou, whole future life, two flowers · 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, eyes, I, two flowers), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brighter	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brighter	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 brighter	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 brighter	advmod
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Take	parataxis
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 brighter	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 look	advmod
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 look	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 deep	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deep	det
17	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 close	advmod
19	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 look	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	13 look	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 tell	iobj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 names	det
27	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tell	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flowers	det
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 flowers	nummod
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 names	nmod
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 torn	nsubj:pass
33	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	35 torn	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 torn	aux
35	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 flowers	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 torn	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 see	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 see	cc
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 see	nsubj
40	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	41 see	aux
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 life	nmod:poss
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 life	amod
44	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 life	compound
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 see	obj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 existence	punct
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 existence	nmod:poss
48	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 existence	amod
49	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 existence	amod
50	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 see	obl
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 see	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 see	cc
53	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	56 wast	obj
55	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	56 wast	nsubj
56	wast	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 see	ccomp
57	about	about	ADV	_	56 wast	advmod
58	to	to	PART	_	59 disturb	mark
59	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 wast	xcomp
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 destroy	cc
61	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 disturb	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	eyes = eye		again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	present	eyes = eye			now	bright property	tree rules
3	look down	infinitive	you not said here			now	into the deep; close property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into deep=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	shall	I	the names of the two flowers	thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient name=Topic
5	tear up	would · perfect · passive	the two flowers not said here	thou				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	see	future	thou	eyes's whole future life			eyes's whole human existence obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
7	see	infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	disturb	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	destroy	infinitive	you not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	name			the two flowers				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
11	exist		eyes = eye					nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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