Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 13
Do you no longer remember the sweet fruits, and the cooling juice in the wild plants of our never-to-be-forgotten home?” said the former inhabitant of the Canary Isles, continuing his dithyrambic.
Who acts: you, cooling juice · What happens: remember, not forget, say, continue · To what, where: sweet fruits, former inhabitant, dithyrambic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cooling juice), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fruits | det |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fruits | amod |
| 8 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remember | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 juice | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 juice | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 juice | det |
| 12 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 juice | compound |
| 13 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 plants | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plants | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plants | amod |
| 17 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 juice | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 forgotten | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 forgotten | punct |
| 22 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 26 forgotten | mark |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 forgotten | punct |
| 26 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 home | amod |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plants | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 juice | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 juice | punct |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 inhabitant | det |
| 32 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 inhabitant | amod |
| 33 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Isles | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Isles | det |
| 36 | Canary | Canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Isles | compound |
| 37 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 inhabitant | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 continuing | punct |
| 39 | continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 said | advcl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 dithyrambic | nmod:poss |
| 41 | dithyrambic | dithyrambic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 continuing | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · do-support | you | the sweet fruits | long property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | not forget | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the cooling juice in the wild plants of our forgotten home | the former inhabitant of the Canary Isles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Topic | ||||
| 4 | continue in a quote | gerund | the cooling juice in the wild plants of our forgotten home not said here | Parrot's dithyrambic | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dithyrambic=Theme |
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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