Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 233
I only want to see her sleep, and nothing will happen unless I kiss her, and that I will not do, for I have strength to resist, and a determined will."
Who acts: I, nothing, face · What happens: want, see, happen, kiss, not do, have · To what, where: sleep, face, strength
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 (I, nothing, face), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 want | advmod |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happen | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happen | cc |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 happen | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | aux |
| 12 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | parataxis |
| 13 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 kiss | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | nsubj |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 happen | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | conj |
| 28 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 resist | mark |
| 30 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 strength | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 will | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 will | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 determined | det |
| 34 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 will | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | face's sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | future | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss a condition, not said to happen | present | I | face | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | not do | future | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | present | I | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 7 | resist | to-infinitive | I not said here | strength not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sleep | face | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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