Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 18
"If I deserted the lowly house, where the fortunes of my sons first began to bloom, fortune would desert them!"
Who acts: Moon, fortunes, fortune · What happens: desert, begin, bloom · To what, where: lowly house, sons
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, fortunes, fortune), 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 | _ | 4 deserted | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 deserted | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deserted | nsubj |
| 4 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deserted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 began | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fortunes | det |
| 11 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 began | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sons | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fortunes | nmod |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 began | advmod |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deserted | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bloom | mark |
| 18 | bloom | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 desert | punct |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 desert | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 desert | aux |
| 22 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bloom | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 desert | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserted | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert in a quote | past | the Moon = moon | the lowly house | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme house=Source | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | past | the fortunes of my sons | first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bloom in a quote | to-infinitive | the fortunes of my sons not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | desert in a quote | would | fortune | sons = son | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme they=Source |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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