Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 72
You have grown quite a nice young man, you shall see her presently; she is a good child, and is the joy of my heart, and, please God, she will continue to be so; she has her own room now, and pays us rent for it."
Who acts: You, Joanna · What happens: grow, see, be, continue, have, pay · To what, where: nice young man, Joanna, good child, joy, God, own room
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 (You, Joanna), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 man | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grown | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 12 see | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 child | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 child | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 child | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 child | amod |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joy | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 joy | cc |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 joy | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 joy | det |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 joy | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 God | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 God | cc |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 God | punct |
| 32 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 33 God | discourse |
| 33 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 continue | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 continue | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 continue | aux |
| 37 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 God | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 so | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 so | cop |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 continue | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 has | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 has | nsubj |
| 43 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | parataxis |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 room | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 room | amod |
| 46 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 has | obj |
| 47 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 has | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 pays | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 pays | cc |
| 50 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 has | conj |
| 51 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 pays | iobj |
| 52 | rent | rent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 pays | xcomp |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 it | case |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 rent | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · perfect | You | quite nice young man | God obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | shall | you | Joanna | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Joanna | a good child | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the joy | of my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | continue | future | Joanna | God not said here | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | present | Joanna | Joanna's own room | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | |||
| 8 | pay | present | Joanna not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | rent | infinitive | Joanna not said here | for room | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
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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