Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 11
I should also like to kiss those roses down in the water, which are so much like us, and the pretty little birds down in the nest.
Who acts: I, roses · What happens: like, kiss, be · To what, where: roses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, roses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7362): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kiss | mark |
| 6 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 roses | det |
| 8 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kiss | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 roses | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 down | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 us | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 us | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 us | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 us | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 roses | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 birds | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 birds | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 birds | det |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 birds | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 birds | amod |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 roses | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 birds | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 nest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 nest | det |
| 29 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 down | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kiss not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | that roses and the pretty little birds | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that roses and the pretty little birds | like us | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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