Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 58

Break them to pieces with your hands and feet, and they will become flax, from which you must spin and weave eleven coats with long sleeves; if these are then thrown over the eleven swans, the spell will be broken.

Who acts: you, Quantities · What happens: break, become, spin, weave, throw · To what, where: Quantities, flax, eleven coats, these, eleven swans, spell

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 (you, Quantities), 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	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Break	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Break	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pieces	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feet	cc
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hands	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 become	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 become	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 become	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
14	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Break	parataxis
15	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 become	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spin	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 spin	obl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 spin	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 spin	aux
21	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 become	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 weave	cc
23	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 spin	conj
24	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 coats	nummod
25	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 weave	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 sleeves	case
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sleeves	amod
28	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 weave	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 thrown	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 thrown	mark
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 thrown	nsubj:pass
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 thrown	aux:pass
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 thrown	advmod
34	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Break	parataxis
35	over	over	ADP	_	38 swans	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 swans	det
37	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 swans	nummod
38	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thrown	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 broken	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spell	det
41	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 broken	nsubj:pass
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 broken	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 broken	aux:pass
44	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 thrown	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	Quantities = quantity			to pieces with your hands and feet result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result
2	become	future	Quantities = quantity	flax				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	spin	must	you					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory
4	weave	infinitive	you not said here	eleven coats			with long sleeves	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Product
5	throw a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		these	the eleven swans	then		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over swan=Destination
6	break	future · passive		the spell				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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