Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 16
"It will be worse when my sons come home," replied the woman; "you are now in the cavern of the Winds, and my sons are the four Winds of heaven: can you understand that?"
Who acts: draught, sons, woman, you · What happens: be, come, reply, understand · To what, where: cavern, four Winds, that · 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 (draught, sons, woman, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 replied | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 come | advmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | advcl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cavern | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 cavern | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 cavern | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cavern | cop |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 cavern | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cavern | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cavern | det |
| 23 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Winds | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Winds | det |
| 26 | Winds | Wind | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 cavern | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Winds | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Winds | cc |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sons | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Winds | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Winds | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Winds | det |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 Winds | nummod |
| 34 | Winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Winds | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 heaven | case |
| 36 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Winds | nmod |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 understand | punct |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 understand | aux |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 understand | nsubj |
| 40 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 understand | obj |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 40 understand | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | draught | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | my sons | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | the cavern | now | of the Winds | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | my sons | the four Winds | of heaven | tree rules | |||
| 6 | understand in a quote | can | you | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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