Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 167

Then I must go into the fields and see if the wind has blown the dust from the grass and the leaves, and the most difficult task of all which I have to do, is to take down all the stars and brighten them up.

Who acts: I, difficult task · What happens: go, see, blow, have, do, be · To what, where: fields, wind, grass, difficult task

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, difficult task), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 blown	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blown	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 blown	aux
14	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 see	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dust	det
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blown	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blown	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leaves	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grass	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 take	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 task	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 difficult	advmod
27	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 task	amod
28	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 task	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 have	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 task	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 have	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 task	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 take	cop
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 take	compound:prt
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 stars	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 stars	det
43	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 take	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 brighten	cc
45	brighten	brighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 take	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 brighten	obj
47	up	up	ADP	_	45 brighten	compound:prt
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	I		the fields	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=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	blow a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		the wind	the grass and the leaves			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary dust=Product from grass=Material
4	have	present	I	the difficult task of all				tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	the difficult task of all not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the difficult task of all				take property	tree rules
7	brighten up	infinitive	the difficult task of all not said here	fields = field				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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