Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 133

You might have slept on a while; for there is very little to see in the flat country over which we are passing unless you like to count the churches; they look like spots of chalk on a green board."

Who acts: You, little, we, Winds · What happens: sleep, be, see, pass, like, count · To what, where: flat country, churches

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, little, we, Winds), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slept	aux
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 is	case
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 little	advmod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 is	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 little	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 country	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
18	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 country	amod
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 passing	obl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 passing	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 passing	aux
24	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 country	acl
25	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
27	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 count	mark
29	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 churches	det
31	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 count	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 look	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 look	nsubj
34	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	conj
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 spots	case
36	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 look	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 chalk	case
38	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spots	nmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 board	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 board	det
41	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 board	amod
42	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 look	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	might · perfect	You			while		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	little		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive			the flat country			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	pass	present · progressive	we		the flat country			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over which=Location
5	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	count not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the churches				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme
7	look	present	Winds = wind				like spots of chalk; on a green board	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on board=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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