Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 152
Before the sprig you gave me faded, I took a spray, and planted it in the earth; and now, as you see, it has become a large tree, and a bunch of the blossoms shall at last appear at a wedding festival, in the bouquet of your daughter."
Who acts: you, sprig, I · What happens: give, fade, take, plant, see, become · To what, where: sprig, me, spray, earth, large tree, wedding festival
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sprig, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 faded | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sprig | det |
| 3 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faded | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprig | acl:relcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 faded | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spray | det |
| 12 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 planted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 planted | cc |
| 15 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 planted | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 planted | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 become | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 become | cc |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 become | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 now | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 become | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 become | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 become | aux |
| 30 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 took | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tree | det |
| 32 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tree | amod |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 become | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 shall | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 shall | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 bunch | det |
| 37 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 shall | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 blossoms | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 blossoms | det |
| 40 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bunch | nmod |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | parataxis |
| 42 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 44 appear | mark |
| 43 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 appear | amod |
| 44 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 shall | advcl |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 festival | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 festival | det |
| 47 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 festival | compound |
| 48 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 appear | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 bouquet | punct |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 bouquet | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 bouquet | det |
| 52 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 appear | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 daughter | case |
| 54 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 55 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bouquet | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | you | the sprig not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | fade | past | the sprig | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | past | I | a spray | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spray=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plant | past | I not said here | sprig | the earth | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=Destination | |||
| 5 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | become | present · perfect | sprig | a large tree | now | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | appear | present | I not said here | a wedding festival | in the bouquet of your daughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at festival=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/152/