Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 14

"Grow and thrive if you can, and produce a good flute for them yonder at the mansion," he said; it would have given him great pleasure to see the noble baron and his companions well thrashed.

Who acts: child, companions · What happens: grow, thrive, produce, say, give, see · To what, where: good flute, mansion, flute, child, noble baron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, companions), 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	_	2 Grow	punct
2	Grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thrive	cc
4	thrive	thrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Grow	conj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 can	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 can	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thrive	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 produce	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 produce	cc
10	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Grow	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flute	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flute	amod
13	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 produce	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flute	nmod
16	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	10 produce	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 mansion	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mansion	det
19	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 produce	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Grow	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Grow	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 given	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	nsubj:pass
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 said	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	iobj
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pleasure	amod
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 given	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 baron	det
35	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 baron	amod
36	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 thrashed	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 companions	nmod:poss
39	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 thrashed	nsubj
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 thrashed	advmod
41	thrashed	thrash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 see	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	infinitive						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thrive in a quote	infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	produce in a quote	infinitive		a good flute		the mansion	for branches = branch; yonder property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flute=Result for they=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	past	child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	would · perfect · passive		flute	child			tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive		the noble baron				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baron=Stimulus
7	thrash	participle	child's companions				well property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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