Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 4

But Ole-Luk-Oie does not wish to hurt them, for he is very fond of children, and only wants them to be quiet that he may relate to them pretty stories, and they never are quiet until they are in bed and asleep.

Who acts: Ole Luk, Oie, Luk, children · What happens: not wish, hurt, be, want, relate, not be · To what, where: Luk, pretty stories, children, bed

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 (Ole Luk, Oie, Luk, children), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 wish	cc
2	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Luk	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ole	punct
4	Luk	Luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wish	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Luk	punct
6	Oie	Oie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Luk	flat
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wish	advmod
9	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hurt	mark
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wish	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fond	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 fond	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fond	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fond	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 fond	advmod
18	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wish	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 children	case
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fond	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wants	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wants	cc
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 wants	advmod
24	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wants	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 quiet	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 quiet	cop
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wants	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 relate	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 relate	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 relate	aux
32	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 quiet	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 relate	obl
35	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 stories	amod
36	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 relate	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 quiet	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 quiet	cc
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 quiet	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 quiet	advmod
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 quiet	cop
42	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wants	xcomp
43	until	until	SCONJ	_	47 bed	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 bed	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 bed	cop
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 bed	case
47	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 quiet	advcl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 asleep	cc
49	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bed	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wish	present · do-support	Ole Luk					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hurt not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ole Luk not said here	Luk				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
3	is	present	Oie				of children; fond property	tree rules
4	want	present	Ole Luk not said here	Luk				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Luk not said here				quiet property	tree rules
6	relate	may	Oie	pretty stories	children = child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to they=Recipient
7	not is not said to happen	present	children = child				quiet property	tree rules
8	is	present	children = child			bed		tree rules
9	be		children = child not said here					tree rules

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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