Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 70
All the plants and buildings, which the property-man had placed, with infinite pains, in countries to which they did not belong, the poor fellow was obliged to put in their right places before cockcrow, if he wanted to get into Paradise.
Who acts: property man, men, infinite pains, painter · What happens: place, not belong, oblige, put, want, get · To what, where: plants, poor fellow, right places, Paradise
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property man, men, infinite pains, painter), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 plants | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plants | det |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 buildings | cc |
| 5 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plants | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 placed | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 property | punct |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 placed | aux |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 plants | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pains | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pains | case |
| 16 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pains | amod |
| 17 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 placed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 countries | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 countries | case |
| 20 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pains | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 belong | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 belong | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 belong | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 belong | advmod |
| 26 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 countries | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 obliged | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fellow | det |
| 29 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fellow | amod |
| 30 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 obliged | aux:pass |
| 32 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 pains | acl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 put | mark |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 obliged | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 places | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 places | nmod:poss |
| 37 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 places | amod |
| 38 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 put | obl |
| 39 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 cockcrow | case |
| 40 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 put | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 wanted | punct |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 wanted | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 wanted | nsubj |
| 44 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 obliged | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 get | mark |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 wanted | xcomp |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 Paradise | case |
| 48 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 get | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect | the property man | all plants and buildings | with infinite pains and countries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 2 | not belong | past · do-support | men = man | to countries | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | infinite pains and countries not said here | the poor fellow | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | infinite pains and countries not said here | men's right places | before cockcrow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | |||
| 5 | want a condition, not said to happen | past | painter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | painter not said here | Paradise | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into paradise=Destination |
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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