Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 23

To-night as soon as you hear a rattling in the old cupboard, you shall be married, as true as I am a Chinaman;" and then he nodded his head and fell asleep.

Who acts: you, I, husband · What happens: hear, marry, be, nod, fall · To what, where: rattling, old cupboard, you, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, husband), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 married	obl
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 night	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
8	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soon	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rattling	det
10	rattling	rattling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 cupboard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cupboard	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cupboard	amod
14	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 married	nsubj:pass
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 married	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 married	aux:pass
19	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 true	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 true	advmod
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 married	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 Chinaman	case
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Chinaman	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Chinaman	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Chinaman	det
27	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 true	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 married	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 married	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nodded	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 nodded	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 nodded	nsubj
33	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 married	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nodded	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nodded	conj
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fell	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you	a rattling	the old cupboard			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rattling=Stimulus
2	marry	shall · passive		you		night		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	I				as a Chinaman	tree rules
4	nod in a quote	past	husband	husband's head		then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	fall in a quote	past	husband not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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