Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 30

You can read it in the fruits of the earth, you can draw it from the flowing and the standing water; but you must understand how--you must understand how to catch a sunbeam.

Who acts: You · What happens: read, draw, flow, stand, understand, catch · To what, where: way, fruits, sunbeam

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fruits	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruits	det
7	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruits	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 draw	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 draw	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 draw	aux
14	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 read	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 draw	obj
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	18 flowing	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flowing	det
18	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 draw	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 water	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
21	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flowing	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 understand	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 understand	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 understand	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 understand	aux
27	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 read	parataxis
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 understand	advmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 understand	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 understand	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 understand	aux
32	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 understand	parataxis
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 catch	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 catch	mark
35	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 understand	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sunbeam	det
37	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 catch	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	can	You	way	the fruits of the earth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	draw	can	you	way		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	flow	gerund	you not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	understand	must	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	understand	must	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	a sunbeam		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunbeam=Theme

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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