Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 173

It certainly has not yet withered; but in the course of years the number of blossoms from time to time will grow less, and at last it was cease altogether to bear fruit; and then its history will be over."

Who acts: number, hedge, history · What happens: not wither, grow, be, bear · To what, where: hedge, course, last cease, fruit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, hedge, history), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 withered	nsubj:pass
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 withered	advmod
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 withered	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 withered	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 withered	advmod
6	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 grow	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 course	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 course	det
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 course	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 number	det
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 blossoms	case
17	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blossoms	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nmod
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grow	aux
23	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 withered	conj
24	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 grow	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cease	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cease	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cease	amod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cease	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cease	cop
31	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	parataxis
32	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	34 bear	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bear	mark
34	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 cease	acl:relcl
35	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bear	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 over	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 over	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 over	advmod
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 history	nmod:poss
40	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 over	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 over	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 over	cop
43	over	over	ADV	_	6 withered	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 withered	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 withered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wither	present · perfect · passive		hedge		yet	certainly property	tree rules
2	grow	future	the number of blossoms from time to time		the course of years		less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Location
3	is a	past	hedge	last cease				tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive	the number of blossoms from time to time not said here	fruit			altogether property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
5	is	future	hedge's history			then	over property	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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