Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 27
Now I would gladly keep the other that was left to me, but I suppose they are not to be separated, and my sick girl will very soon go to her sister above."
Who acts: I, sick girl · What happens: keep, leave, suppose, not separate, go · To what, where: other, me, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sick girl), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 keep | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 left | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 other | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 left | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 suppose | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 suppose | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 suppose | nsubj |
| 16 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | parataxis |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 separated | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 separated | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 separated | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 separated | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 separated | aux:pass |
| 22 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 suppose | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 go | cc |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 girl | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 girl | amod |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 go | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 soon | advmod |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 go | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 suppose | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 sister | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sister | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 go | obl |
| 35 | above | above | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | would | I | the other | now | gladly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not separate | present · passive | pieces = piece | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | go | future | my sick girl | to garret's sister; above, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=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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