Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 168
I have to number them first before I put them in my apron, and also to number the places from which I take them, so that they may go back into the right holes, or else they would not remain, and we should have a number of falling stars, for they would all tumble down one after the other."
Who acts: I, fields, we · What happens: have, put, take, go back, not remain, fall · To what, where: number, fields, apron, places, right holes, one
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, fields, we), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 number | mark |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 number | nmod |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 have | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 apron | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 apron | nmod:poss |
| 13 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 number | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 number | cc |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 number | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 number | mark |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 places | det |
| 20 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 number | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 take | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 places | acl:relcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 go | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 take | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 holes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 holes | det |
| 35 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 holes | amod |
| 36 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 go | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 remain | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 remain | cc |
| 39 | else | else | ADV | _ | 43 remain | advmod |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 remain | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 remain | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 remain | advmod |
| 43 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 holes | acl:relcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 have | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 have | cc |
| 46 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 have | nsubj |
| 47 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 have | aux |
| 48 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 take | parataxis |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 number | det |
| 50 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 have | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 stars | case |
| 52 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 53 stars | amod |
| 53 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 number | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 tumble | punct |
| 55 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 59 tumble | mark |
| 56 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 tumble | nsubj |
| 57 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 tumble | aux |
| 58 | all | all | ADV | _ | 59 tumble | advmod |
| 59 | tumble | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 have | conj |
| 60 | down | down | ADP | _ | 59 tumble | compound:prt |
| 61 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 59 tumble | obj |
| 62 | after | after | ADP | _ | 64 other | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 other | det |
| 64 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 one | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 number | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | number fields | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | |||
| 2 | put | past | I | fields = field | my apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in apron=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | present | I | fields = field | the places | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from which=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | go back | may | fields = field | the right holes | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not remain | would | fields = field | the right holes not said here | else property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Attribute | |||
| 6 | have | should | we | a number of falling stars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | tumble down | would | fields = field | one | after the other | all property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
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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