Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 56

Quantities of the same sort grow round the cave in which you sleep, but none will be of any use to you unless they grow upon the graves in a churchyard.

Who acts: Quantities, you, none · What happens: grow, sleep, be · To what, where: cave, you, churchyard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quantities, you, none), 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	Quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 sort	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	amod
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quantities	nmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sleep	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sleep	nsubj
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cave	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	21 use	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 use	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 use	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 use	det
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 use	nmod
24	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 grow	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grow	nsubj
26	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	advcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 graves	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 graves	det
29	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grow	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 churchyard	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 churchyard	det
32	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grow	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Quantities of the same sort			round the cave	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	present	you		the cave		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	is	future	none	you		of any use	tree rules
4	grow a condition, not said to happen	present	Quantities = quantity		a churchyard	upon the graves	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grave=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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