Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 23
All the snow will melt; the cold winds will be driven away; we shall rule; all will become green, and then you will have companions, syringas, laburnums, and roses; but you are the first, so graceful, so delicate!"
Who acts: snow, we, all, you · What happens: melt, drive away, rule, become, have, be · To what, where: cold winds, companions
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 (snow, we, all, you), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 snow | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snow | det |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melt | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 melt | aux |
| 5 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 driven | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 winds | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 winds | amod |
| 9 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 driven | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 driven | aux:pass |
| 12 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 melt | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 driven | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rule | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 rule | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 rule | aux |
| 17 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 melt | parataxis |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rule | parataxis |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 become | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 have | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rule | parataxis |
| 29 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 have | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 syringas | punct |
| 31 | syringas | syringa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 companions | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 laburnums | punct |
| 33 | laburnums | laburnum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 companions | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 roses | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 roses | cc |
| 36 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 companions | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 first | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 first | cc |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 first | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 first | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 first | det |
| 42 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 melt | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 graceful | punct |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 graceful | advmod |
| 45 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 first | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 delicate | punct |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 delicate | advmod |
| 48 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 first | conj |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 melt | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | future | all snow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | drive away | future · passive | the cold winds | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | rule | shall | we | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | become | future | all | green property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | future | you | companions and syringas and laburnums and roses | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | present | you | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | be | you not said here | 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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