Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 21
"Yes, that is because they have nothing else to do; but I am obliged to be harsh, to keep my boys in order, and I can do it, although they are so head-strong.
Who acts: questions, prince · What happens: be, do, oblige, keep · To what, where: prince, boys, order
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 (questions, prince), 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 | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 that | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | cop |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | parataxis |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 nothing | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nothing | acl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 obliged | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 obliged | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 obliged | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | aux:pass |
| 17 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 have | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 harsh | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 harsh | cop |
| 20 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 obliged | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 keep | mark |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 boys | nmod:poss |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 order | case |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 do | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | aux |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 keep | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 do | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 strong | punct |
| 35 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 41 strong | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 strong | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 strong | cop |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 strong | advmod |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 strong | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 head | punct |
| 41 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 do | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | questions = question | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | questions = question not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | oblige in a quote | present · passive | the prince = prince | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | harsh property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | my boys | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in order=Location | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | can | the prince = prince | order | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | questions = question | strong 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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