Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 49
"You relate your adventures very well, my son," said the mother, "it makes my mouth water to hear you.
Who acts: You, mother, pig, your · What happens: relate, say, make, hear, adventure · To what, where: adventures, mouth water, you · 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 (You, mother, pig, your), 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 | _ | 3 relate | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 relate | nsubj |
| 3 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 son | advcl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 5 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 relate | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 relate | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 water | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | compound |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hear | mark |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 makes | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate in a quote | present | You | your adventures | well property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | pig | my mouth water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | pig not said here | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | adventure in a quote | your | nom adventure «act 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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