Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 166

I must now go to the church steeple and see if the little sprites who live there have polished the bells, so that they may sound sweetly.

Who acts: I, little sprites, sprites · What happens: go, see, live, polish, sound · To what, where: church steeple, little sprites

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little sprites, sprites), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 steeple	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 steeple	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steeple	compound
8	steeple	steeple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 polished	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sprites	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sprites	amod
14	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 polished	nsubj:pass
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 live	nsubj
16	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sprites	acl:relcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 live	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 polished	aux
19	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bells	det
21	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 polished	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sound	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 sound	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sound	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sound	aux
27	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
28	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	27 sound	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	I		the church steeple	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to steeple=Initial_Location
2	see	infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	live	present	the little sprites		there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	polish a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		the little sprites				tree rules
5	sound	may	sprites = sprite				sweetly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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