Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 80
"If the children are only good, the parents do not mind standing outside the garden pale."
Who acts: children, parents · What happens: be, not mind, stand · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, parents), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 good | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 good | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mind | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parents | det |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mind | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mind | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mind | advmod |
| 13 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mind | xcomp |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 18 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garden | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the children | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | the parents | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | gerund | the parents not said here | the garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside garden=Location |
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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