Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 152
Wrap your cloak round you; for while the sun scorches you here, a few steps farther it will be icy cold.
Who acts: you, sun · What happens: wrap, scorch, be · To what, where: cloak, you
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, sun), 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 | Wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wrap | obj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Wrap | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 scorches | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 scorches | mark |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 scorches | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scorches | nsubj |
| 11 | scorches | scorch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wrap | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 scorches | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 scorches | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 farther | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 steps | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 steps | amod |
| 17 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 farther | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 cold | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cold | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 cold | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cold | cop |
| 22 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cold | amod |
| 23 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scorches | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wrap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | imperative | you not said here | your cloak | round you | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | |||
| 2 | scorch | present | the sun | you | here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | future | sun | cold, far property | 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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