Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 257
"And there he will have to go at last," said a strong old man, with large black wings, and a scythe in his hand, whose name was Death. "
Who acts: son, strong old man, name, Death · What happens: have, go, say, be, name · To what, where: last, Death · 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 (son, strong old man, name, Death), 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 | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 have | expl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wings | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wings | case |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wings | amod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wings | amod |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 man | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scythe | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 scythe | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 scythe | det |
| 26 | scythe | scythe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scythe | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Death | punct |
| 31 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Death | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Death | cop |
| 34 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 scythe | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 Death | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 scythe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | son | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | last | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a strong old man with large black wings | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Death's name | Death | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | Death | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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