Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 48

Let the hazel bush bear nuts, and the cows and sheep give milk; they have each their public.

Who acts: you, hazel, cows · What happens: let, nut, give, have · To what, where: milk, public

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hazel, cows), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nuts	det
3	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nuts	nsubj
4	bush	bush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nuts	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nuts	compound
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Let	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cows	det
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sheep	cc
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cows	conj
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 public	det
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 public	nmod:poss
20	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	nut		hazel		tree rules
3	give	present	the cows and sheep	milk	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
4	have	present	cows = cow	cows's public	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent public=Patient

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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