Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 199
"I should not touch the fruit on the tree of knowledge," said the prince; "there is abundance of fruit equally beautiful."
Who acts: prince, abundance · What happens: not touch, say, be · To what, where: fruit, tree · 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 (prince, abundance), 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 touch | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fruit | det |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touch | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fruit | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 knowledge | case |
| 12 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fruit | case |
| 24 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 abundance | nmod |
| 25 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fruit | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | should | the prince = prince | the fruit | the tree of knowledge | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | abundance of fruit | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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