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Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 81

“That I will not tell thee,” said Death; “but this thou shalt know from me, that the one flower was thy own child! it was thy child's fate thou saw'st--thy own child's future life!”

Who acts: Death, this, one flower, own child, thou · What happens: not tell, say, know, be, saw'st · To what, where: That, thee, own child, fate · 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, this, one flower, own child), 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

punctoblnsubjauxadvmodccompiobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctccnsubjnsubjauxccompcaseoblpunctmarkdetcompoundnsubjcopnmod:possamodnsubjpunctnsubjcopnmod:possnmod:posscaseparataxisnsubjconjpunctnmod:possamodnmod:posscaseamodconjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTThatPRONIPRONwillAUXnotPARTtellVERBtheePRON,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBDeathPROPN;PUNCT“PUNCTbutCCONJthisPRONthouPRONshaltAUXknowVERBfromADPmePRON,PUNCTthatSCONJtheDEToneNOUNflowerNOUNwasAUXthyPRONownADJchildNOUN!PUNCTitPRONwasAUXthyPRONchildNOUN'sPARTfateNOUNthouPRONsaw'stNOUN--PUNCTthyPRONownADJchildNOUN'sPARTfutureADJlifeNOUN!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 tellpunct
2ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 tellobl
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 tellnsubj
4willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin6 tellaux
5notnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 telladvmod
6telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf10 saidccomp
7theethouPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch6 telliobj
8,,PUNCT_6 tellpunct
9”"PUNCT_6 tellpunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11DeathDeathPROPNNumber=Sing10 saidnsubj
12;;PUNCT_18 knowpunct
13“"PUNCT_18 knowpunct
14butbutCCONJ_18 knowcc
15thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem18 knownsubj
16thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch18 knownsubj
17shaltshallAUXStyle=Arch VerbForm=Fin18 knowaux
18knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf10 saidccomp
19fromfromADP_20 mecase
20meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 knowobl
21,,PUNCT_29 childpunct
22thatthatSCONJ_29 childmark
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 flowerdet
24oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing25 flowercompound
25flowerflowerNOUNNumber=Sing29 childnsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 childcop
27thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch29 childnmod:poss
28ownownADJDegree=Pos29 childamod
29childchildNOUNNumber=Sing36 fatensubj
30!!PUNCT_29 childpunct
31ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 fatensubj
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 fatecop
33thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch34 childnmod:poss
34childchildNOUNNumber=Sing36 fatenmod:poss
35's'sPART_34 childcase
36fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing18 knowparataxis
37thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch38 saw'stnsubj
38saw'stsaw'stNOUNNumber=Sing36 fateconj
39----PUNCT_45 lifepunct
40thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch42 childnmod:poss
41ownownADJDegree=Pos42 childamod
42childchildNOUNNumber=Sing45 lifenmod:poss
43's'sPART_42 childcase
44futurefutureADJDegree=Pos45 lifeamod
45lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing36 fateconj
46!!PUNCT_36 fatepunct
47”"PUNCT_18 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not tell speech: assert in a quotefutureDeathThattheevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2say speech: expresspastDeathvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3know in a quoteshallthisfrom Deathvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4is a in a quotepastthe one flowerthy own childtree rules
5is a in a quotepastthy own childthy child's fate and saw'st and thy own child's future lifetree rules
6saw'st in a quotethoutree rules

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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