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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tell | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 tell | advmod |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 know | nsubj |
| 17 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 child | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 child | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flower | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flower | compound |
| 25 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 child | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 child | cop |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 child | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 child | amod |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fate | nsubj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 child | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fate | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fate | cop |
| 33 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 child | nmod:poss |
| 34 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fate | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 child | case |
| 36 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | parataxis |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 saw'st | nsubj |
| 38 | saw'st | saw'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fate | conj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 life | punct |
| 40 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 child | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 child | amod |
| 42 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 life | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 child | case |
| 44 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 life | amod |
| 45 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fate | conj |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 fate | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Death | That | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Death | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | shall | this | from Death | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the one flower | thy own child | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | thy own child | thy child's fate and saw'st and thy own child's future life | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | saw'st in a quote | thou | tree 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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