Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 5
Oh, why did Eve pluck the fruit from the tree of knowledge? why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit?" thought the king's son: "if I had been there it would never have happened, and there would have been no sin in the world."
Who acts: Eve, Adam, I, it · What happens: pluck, eat, forbid, think, be, not happen · To what, where: fruit, tree, forbidden fruit, son, sin, world · 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 (Eve, Adam, I, it), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 pluck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 pluck | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pluck | aux |
| 5 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pluck | nsubj |
| 6 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 eat | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fruit | det |
| 8 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pluck | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pluck | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 knowledge | case |
| 13 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pluck | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 eat | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 17 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fruit | det |
| 20 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fruit | amod |
| 21 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 there | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 there | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 there | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 there | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 there | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 there | cop |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 happened | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 happened | aux |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 happened | advmod |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 happened | aux |
| 40 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 there | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 sin | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 sin | cc |
| 43 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 48 sin | expl |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 sin | aux |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 sin | aux |
| 46 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 sin | cop |
| 47 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 sin | det |
| 48 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 world | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 world | det |
| 51 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sin | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 sin | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 sin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past · do-support | Eve | the fruit | the tree of knowledge | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from tree=Source | |||
| 2 | eat | past · do-support | Adam | the forbidden fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the king's son | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent son=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not happen | would · perfect | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | would · perfect | no sin | the world; there | 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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