Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 68

"Do not touch the flower," exclaimed the old woman; "but place yourself here; and when Death comes--I expect him every minute--do not let him pull up that plant, but threaten him that if he does you will serve the other flowers in the same manner.

Who acts: you, old woman, Death, beating, flower · What happens: not touch, exclaim, come, expect, not let, pull up · To what, where: flower, plant, other flowers, same manner · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old woman, Death, beating), 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	_	4 touch	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 place	cc
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	conj
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 place	nmod
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 touch	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 expect	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 expect	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 comes	advmod
22	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 expect	advcl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 expect	nsubj
26	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 expect	obj
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 minute	det
29	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 expect	obl:unmarked
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 let	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 let	advmod
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 expect	parataxis
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 pull	compound:prt
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 plant	det
38	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pull	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 threaten	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 threaten	cc
41	threaten	threaten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 let	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 threaten	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 serve	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 does	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 does	nsubj
46	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 serve	aux
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 serve	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 serve	aux
49	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 threaten	advcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 flowers	det
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 flowers	amod
52	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 serve	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 manner	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 manner	det
55	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 manner	amod
56	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 serve	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not touch in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the flower	here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flower=Co-Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	present	Death				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	expect in a quote	present	beating	flower		minute	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not let in a quote	infinitive · do-support		flower			tree rules
6	pull up in a quote	infinitive	flower not said here	that plant			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
7	threaten in a quote	infinitive		flower			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
8	serve in a quote	present · do-support	you	the other flowers	the same manner		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Value in manner=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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