Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 80
I take all His flowers and trees, and transplant them into the gardens of Paradise in an unknown land.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, transplant · To what, where: flowers, trees, gardens
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 flowers | det:predet |
| 4 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trees | cc |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flowers | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 transplant | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 transplant | cc |
| 10 | transplant | transplant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 transplant | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 gardens | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gardens | det |
| 14 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 transplant | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Paradise | case |
| 16 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gardens | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 19 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 land | amod |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Paradise | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | I | God's flowers and trees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | transplant | infinitive | I not said here | trees = tree | the gardens of Paradise in a unknown land | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/80/