Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 4
He believed it all then; but as he grew older, and learnt more and more, he became wise enough to understand that the splendor of the garden of paradise must be very different to all this. "
Who acts: son, splendor · What happens: believe, grow, learn, become, understand, be · To what, where: history · 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, splendor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 then | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 believed | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 grew | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 grew | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | parataxis |
| 11 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learnt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 learnt | cc |
| 14 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 learnt | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 more | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 learnt | conj |
| 21 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 wise | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 understand | mark |
| 24 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wise | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 different | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 splendor | det |
| 27 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 different | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 garden | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 garden | det |
| 30 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 splendor | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 paradise | case |
| 32 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 garden | nmod |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 different | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 different | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 different | advmod |
| 36 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 understand | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 all | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 different | conj |
| 39 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 all | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | son | history | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | past | son | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | past | son not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | become | past | son | wise property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | understand | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | must | the splendor of the garden of paradise | different property | tree rules |
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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