Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 45
"That is not likely to happen yet," said the wind; "and I will also blow a memory into you, so that should you receive other similar presents your old age will pass very pleasantly."
Who acts: That, wind, great gift, you, old age · What happens: not be, happen, say, blow, receive, pass · To what, where: memory, other similar presents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, wind, great gift, you), 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 | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 likely | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 happen | mark |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 likely | xcomp |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 happen | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 likely | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blow | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 blow | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 blow | aux |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 blow | advmod |
| 20 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 likely | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 memory | det |
| 22 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blow | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 blow | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 receive | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 receive | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 receive | aux |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 receive | nsubj |
| 30 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 blow | conj |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 presents | amod |
| 32 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 presents | amod |
| 33 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 receive | obj |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 age | nmod:poss |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 age | amod |
| 36 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pass | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 pass | aux |
| 38 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 presents | acl:relcl |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 pleasantly | advmod |
| 40 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 38 pass | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | That | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | That not said here | yet | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | blow in a quote | future | a great gift = gift | a memory | into you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent memory=Material into you=Product | |||
| 5 | receive in a quote | should | you | other similar presents | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pass in a quote | future | your old age | other similar presents not said here | pleasantly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme present=Trajectory |
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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