Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 48

Many flowers and trees have faded to-night, and Death will soon come to transplant them.

Who acts: Death · What happens: fade, come, transplant · To what, where: Many flowers, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 faded	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 trees	cc
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flowers	conj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 faded	aux
6	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 to	punct
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
12	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 faded	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 transplant	mark
17	transplant	transplant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	xcomp
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 transplant	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 faded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present · perfect · passive		Many flowers and trees	night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	come	future	Death			soon property	tree rules
3	transplant	to-infinitive	Death not said here	trees = tree			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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