Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 81

How they flourish there, and what that garden resembles, I may not tell you."

Who acts: trees, garden, I · What happens: flourish, resemble, not tell · To what, where: you · 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 (trees, garden, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 flourish	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flourish	nsubj
3	flourish	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flourish	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 flourish	conj
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resembles	nsubj
10	resembles	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flourish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	flourish	present	trees = tree		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	resemble	present	that garden			tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	may	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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