Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 25
There they stay, and dare not attempt to come out until I allow them to do so.
Who acts: sacks, I · What happens: stay, attempt, come out, allow, do · To what, where: sacks
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 (sacks, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stay | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 attempt | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 attempt | cc |
| 6 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attempt | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dare | advmod |
| 8 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stay | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attempt | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 allow | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 allow | nsubj |
| 14 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 attempt | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 allow | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allow | xcomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | sacks = sack | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attempt | infinitive | sacks = sack not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come out not said to happen | to-infinitive | sacks = sack not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | allow | present | I | sacks = sack | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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