Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 35
"Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see."
Who acts: Roses, we · What happens: bloom, cease, be, see
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roses, we), 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 | _ | 3 bloom | punct |
| 2 | Roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bloom | nsubj |
| 3 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cease | cc |
| 5 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bloom | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 be | mark |
| 7 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cease | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 13 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 child | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Christ | punct |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bloom | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bloom | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bloom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom in a quote | present | Roses | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cease in a quote | present | Roses not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | Roses not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | shall | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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