Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 49
You know already that every human being has a life-tree or a life-flower, just as may be ordained for him.
Who acts: You · What happens: know, have, ordain · To what, where: life tree
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 2 know | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 human | mark |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 human | det |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 human | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 flower | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flower | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 life | punct |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordained | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 ordained | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 ordained | advmod |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 ordained | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ordained | aux:pass |
| 23 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tree | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ordained | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | present | a life tree or a life flower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ordain | may · passive | for flower | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
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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