Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 70
None can be uprooted, unless he receives permission to do so."
Who acts: flower · What happens: uproot, receive, do · To what, where: None, permission
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 (flower), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 uprooted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 uprooted | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 uprooted | aux:pass |
| 4 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 receives | punct |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 receives | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 receives | nsubj |
| 8 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 uprooted | parataxis |
| 9 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receives | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 permission | acl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 receives | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 uprooted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uproot | can · passive | None | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive a condition, not said to happen | present | flower | permission | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | flower not said here | permission not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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