Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 263
Once in every thousand years I shall go and fetch him, when he will either be condemned to sink still deeper, or be raised to a happier life in the world beyond the stars."
Who acts: I · What happens: go, fetch, condemn, sink, raise · To what, where: garden, happier life
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), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 go | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 years | det |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Once | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fetch | cc |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fetch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 condemned | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 will | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 will | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 condemned | aux |
| 16 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 18 condemned | cc:preconj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 condemned | aux:pass |
| 18 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 go | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sink | mark |
| 20 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 condemned | xcomp |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 deeper | advmod |
| 22 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 sink | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 raised | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 raised | cc |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 raised | aux:pass |
| 26 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 condemned | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 life | det |
| 29 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 life | amod |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 raised | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 life | nmod |
| 34 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 36 stars | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stars | det |
| 36 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 raised | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | I not said here | garden | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | condemn | future · passive | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sink | to-infinitive | deep property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | raise | infinitive · passive | a happier life in the world | beyond the stars | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: to life=Destination beyond star=Initial_Location |
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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