Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 90

I will tell you the names of the two flowers which you wished to pull up; and you will see the whole future of the human beings they represent, and what you were about to frustrate and destroy."

Who acts: I, two flowers, you, eyes · What happens: tell, wish, pull up, see, represent, be · To what, where: names, you, whole future, human beings, two flowers · 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 (I, two flowers, you, eyes), 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 names	det
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flowers	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 flowers	nummod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 names	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wished	nsubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 wished	nsubj
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flowers	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pull	mark
15	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wished	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 pull	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 future	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 future	amod
24	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 beings	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beings	det
27	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beings	amod
28	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 future	nmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 represent	nsubj
30	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 beings	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 about	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 about	cc
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 about	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 about	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 about	cop
36	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 see	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 frustrate	mark
38	frustrate	frustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 about	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 destroy	cc
40	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 frustrate	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	the names of the two flowers	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient name=Topic
2	wish	past	the two flowers				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pull up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the two flowers not said here				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	future	you	the whole future of the human beings			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus
5	represent	present	eyes = eye	the human beings not said here			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot being=Theme
6	is	past	you			about property	tree rules
7	frustrate	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	destroy	infinitive	you not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	name			the two flowers			nom name «communication transitive»: of=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.

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