Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 89

Take them back--they are clearer now than before--and then look into the deep well which is close by here.

Who acts: you, eyes, deep well · What happens: take back, be, look · To what, where: eyes

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, eyes, deep well), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 clearer	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 clearer	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clearer	cop
7	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Take	conj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Take	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 now	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 look	advmod
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 well	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 well	det
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 well	amod
18	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 close	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 close	cop
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 well	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 here	case
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 close	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take back	imperative	you not said here	eyes = eye	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	present	eyes = eye			clear property	tree rules
3	look	infinitive	you not said here		then	into the deep well	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme
4	is	present	the deep well			close property	tree rules

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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