Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 205

If once you attempted to follow me, you would soon find yourself in the hall, where grows the tree of knowledge, for I sleep beneath its perfumed branches.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: attempt, follow, find, grow, sleep, perfume · To what, where: me, yourself, hall, tree

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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 attempted	mark
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	4 attempted	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 attempted	nsubj
4	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 find	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 attempted	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 follow	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 attempted	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 find	advmod
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 find	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hall	det
16	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grows	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 grows	advmod
19	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 find	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grows	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 knowledge	case
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sleep	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 sleep	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sleep	nsubj
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grows	conj
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	31 branches	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 branches	nmod:poss
30	perfumed	perfume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 branches	amod
31	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sleep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attempt a condition, not said to happen	past	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	find	would	you	yourself	the hall	soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic
4	grow	present	you not said here	the tree of knowledge			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
5	sleep	present	I			beneath knowledge's perfumed branches	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	perfume	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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