Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 43
The farmer's wife preserves them and strews salt among them; then they get a French name which I neither can pronounce nor care to, and are put into the fire to make a nice smell.
Who acts: wife, roses, I · What happens: preserve, strew, get, pronounce, care, put · To what, where: roses, salt, French name, fire, nice smell
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 (wife, roses, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 preserves | nsubj |
| 5 | preserves | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 preserves | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strews | cc |
| 8 | strews | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 preserves | conj |
| 9 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strews | obj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 strews | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 get | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 preserves | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 name | amod |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 pronounce | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pronounce | nsubj |
| 21 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 23 pronounce | advmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 pronounce | aux |
| 23 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 name | acl:relcl |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 care | cc |
| 25 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pronounce | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 care | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 put | aux:pass |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 get | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 fire | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fire | det |
| 33 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 make | mark |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 put | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 smell | det |
| 37 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 smell | amod |
| 38 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 preserves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | present | the farmer's wife | roses = rose | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | strew | present | the farmer's wife not said here | salt | among roses = rose | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme among they=Destination | |||
| 3 | get | present | roses = rose | a French name | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | pronounce | can | I | a French name | neither property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 5 | care | infinitive | I not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | put | present · passive | roses = rose not said here | the fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | roses = rose not said here | a nice smell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smell=Product |
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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