Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 7

They had permission to do so, although the tree stood close by the stream, and they might easily have fallen into the water; but the eye of God watches over the little ones, otherwise they would never be safe.

Who acts: gardens, tree, eye · What happens: have, do, stand, fall, watch, not be · To what, where: permission, water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardens, tree, eye), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 permission	acl
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
8	although	although	SCONJ	_	11 stood	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 stood	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 stream	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fallen	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fallen	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fallen	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fallen	aux
20	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 fallen	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 fallen	aux
22	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 stood	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fallen	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 watches	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 watches	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eye	det
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 watches	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 God	case
31	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 eye	nmod
32	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
33	over	over	ADP	_	36 ones	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ones	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 watches	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 safe	punct
38	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	43 safe	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 safe	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 safe	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 safe	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 safe	cop
43	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 watches	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	gardens = garden	permission		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	gardens = garden not said here	permission not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past	the tree		by the stream; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stream=Location
4	fall	might · perfect	gardens = garden		into the water result; easily property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
5	watch	present	the eye of God		over the little ones	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over one=Location
6	not is	would	gardens = garden		otherwise, safe 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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