Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 109
If you will open the sack, sweetest mother, I will give you two pocketfuls of tea, green and fresh as when I gathered it from the spot where it grew."
Who acts: you, I, tea · What happens: open, give, gather, grow · To what, where: sack, you, tea, spot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, tea), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 open | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | aux |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mother | punct |
| 8 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 mother | amod |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sack | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pocketfuls | nummod |
| 16 | pocketfuls | pocketful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 green | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tea | case |
| 18 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pocketfuls | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 green | punct |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 give | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fresh | cc |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 green | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 gathered | mark |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 gathered | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 gathered | nsubj |
| 26 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 green | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gathered | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 spot | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spot | det |
| 30 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gathered | obl |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 grew | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 grew | nsubj |
| 33 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 spot | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the sack and sweetest mother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | I | tea | the spot | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from spot=Source | |||
| 4 | grow | past | tea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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