Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 3

His grandmother had told him when he was quite a little boy, just old enough to go to school, that each flower in the garden of paradise was a sweet cake, that the pistils were full of rich wine, that on one flower history was written, on another geography or tables; so those who wished to learn their lessons had only to eat some of the cakes, and the more they ate, the more history, geography, or tables they knew.

Who acts: little boy, son, flower, pistils, those, tables · What happens: tell, be, go, write, wish, learn · To what, where: grandmother, son, little boy, school, sweet cake, that · 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 (little boy, son, flower, pistils), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandmother	nmod:poss
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 boy	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boy	cop
9	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	12 boy	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:agent
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 old	advmod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 old	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 old	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 school	case
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cake	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 cake	mark
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 flower	det
24	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cake	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 garden	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flower	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 paradise	case
29	paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 garden	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cake	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cake	det
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cake	amod
33	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 full	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 full	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 pistils	det
37	pistils	pistil	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 full	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 full	cop
39	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 wine	case
41	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wine	amod
42	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 full	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 written	punct
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 written	nsubj:pass
45	on	on	ADP	_	48 history	case
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 history	nummod
47	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 history	compound
48	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 that	nmod
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 written	aux:pass
50	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 full	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 geography	punct
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 geography	case
53	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	54 geography	det
54	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 written	obl
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 tables	cc
56	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 geography	conj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 had	punct
58	so	so	ADV	_	66 had	advmod
59	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	66 had	nsubj
60	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 wished	nsubj
61	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 those	acl:relcl
62	to	to	PART	_	63 learn	mark
63	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 wished	advcl
64	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 lessons	nmod:poss
65	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 learn	obj
66	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
67	only	only	ADV	_	69 eat	advmod
68	to	to	PART	_	69 eat	mark
69	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 had	xcomp
70	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	69 eat	obj
71	of	of	ADP	_	73 cakes	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 cakes	det
73	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 some	nmod
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 ate	punct
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 ate	cc
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 more	det
77	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	79 ate	advmod
78	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 ate	nsubj
79	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 history	punct
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	83 history	det
82	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	83 history	amod
83	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 ate	obj
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 geography	punct
85	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 history	conj
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 knew	punct
87	or	or	CCONJ	_	90 knew	cc
88	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	90 knew	nsubj
89	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	90 knew	nsubj
90	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	79 ate	conj
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	quite little boy	son's grandmother	son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	is a	past	son	quite little boy				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	son not said here			school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
4	is a	past	each flower in the garden of paradise	a sweet cake				tree rules
5	is	past	the pistils				of rich wine; full property	tree rules
6	write	past · passive		that		another geography or tables		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on geography=Destination
7	wish	past						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	learn	to-infinitive		pistils's lessons				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
9	have	past	those					tree rules
10	eat	to-infinitive	those not said here	some				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
11	eat	past	pistils = pistil	the more history and geography				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient
12	know	past	tables					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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