Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 31

"Yes, it is a delightful place; there is nothing to do all day long but eat, and while we are so well off out there, in this country there will not be a single green leaf on the trees, and the weather will be so cold that the clouds will freeze, and fall on the earth in little white rags."

Who acts: river, nothing, we, weather, clouds · What happens: be, do, eat, not be, freeze, fall · To what, where: delightful place, single green leaf, trees, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, nothing, we, weather), 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	_	8 place	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 place	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 place	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 is	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 nothing	acl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 do	advmod
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 eat	cc
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 do	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 off	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 off	cc
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 off	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 off	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 off	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 off	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 off	advmod
27	off	off	ADV	_	8 place	conj
28	out	out	ADV	_	29 there	advmod
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 off	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 country	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 country	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 country	det
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 off	conj
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 country	advmod
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 leaf	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 leaf	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 leaf	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 leaf	det
39	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 leaf	amod
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 leaf	amod
41	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 there	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 trees	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 leaf	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 cold	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 cold	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 weather	det
48	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 cold	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 cold	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 cold	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 cold	advmod
52	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 leaf	parataxis
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 freeze	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 clouds	det
55	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 freeze	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 freeze	aux
57	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 cold	advcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 fall	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 fall	cc
60	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 freeze	conj
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 earth	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 earth	det
63	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 fall	obl
64	in	in	ADP	_	67 rags	case
65	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 rags	amod
66	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 rags	amod
67	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 earth	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	river	a delightful place				tree rules
2	be in a quote	present	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			day	long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat in a quote	present	nothing not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	we		there		off, well property	tree rules
6	not is a in a quote	future		a single green leaf	the trees			tree rules
7	is in a quote	future	the weather				cold property	tree rules
8	freeze in a quote	future	the clouds					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	fall in a quote	infinitive	the clouds not said here		the earth in little white rags			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

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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