Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 212
Thou shalt have permission to stand without the gate and reflect, and repent of thy life on earth; but thou shalt not be admitted here until thou hast performed one good deed of repentance, which will indeed for thee be something."
Who acts: Thou, thee · What happens: have, stand, reflect, not admit, perform, be · To what, where: permission, thou
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, thee), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permission | acl |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reflect | cc |
| 11 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 repent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 repent | cc |
| 14 | repent | repent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repent | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 life | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 admitted | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 admitted | cc |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 26 admitted | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 admitted | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 admitted | aux:pass |
| 26 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | parataxis |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 admitted | advmod |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 performed | mark |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 performed | aux:pass |
| 31 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 admitted | advcl |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 deed | nummod |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 deed | amod |
| 34 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 performed | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 repentance | case |
| 36 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 deed | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 will | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 will | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 deed | acl:relcl |
| 40 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 31 performed | advmod |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 something | case |
| 42 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 something | nsubj |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 something | cop |
| 44 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 performed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | Thou | permission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | permission not said here | without the gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | reflect | infinitive | Thou not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not admit speech: other | shall · passive | thou | here | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | perform | present · passive | thou | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | thee | for something | tree rules |
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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