Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 124
Well, you can fly off with me to-morrow; but I must tell you one thing--no human being has been there since the time of Adam and Eve. I suppose you have read of them in your Bible."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: fly off, tell, be, suppose, read · To what, where: one thing, you, time, Bible · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 fly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fly | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fly | aux |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 fly | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fly | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fly | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fly | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thing | nummod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 there | punct |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 there | det |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 there | amod |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 there | cop |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 there | cop |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 thing | conj |
| 27 | since | since | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Adam | case |
| 31 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 time | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Eve. | cc |
| 33 | Eve. | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 time | conj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 suppose | nsubj |
| 35 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | acl:relcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 read | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 read | aux |
| 38 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 read | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 Bible | case |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 Bible | nmod:poss |
| 43 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 read | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fly | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | can | you | with me; to morrow result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to morrow=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | must | I | one thing | you | time | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is | gerund · perfect | I not said here | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suppose | present | I | the time of Adam and Eve. not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | read | present · perfect | you | your Bible | of Winds = wind | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of they=Topic |
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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