Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 85
If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk and velvet, I will place a golden crown upon your head, and you shall dwell, and rule, and make your home in my richest castle."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, dress, place, dwell, make · To what, where: you, silk, rule, home, richest castle
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, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 good | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dress | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dress | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 dress | aux |
| 13 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 dress | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 silk | case |
| 16 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dress | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 velvet | cc |
| 18 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 silk | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 place | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | aux |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dress | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crown | det |
| 24 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 crown | amod |
| 25 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | appos |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crown | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dwell | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dwell | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 dwell | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dwell | aux |
| 33 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dress | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rule | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rule | cc |
| 36 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dwell | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 dress | parataxis |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 home | nmod:poss |
| 41 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 castle | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 castle | nmod:poss |
| 44 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 castle | amod |
| 45 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dress | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dress | future | I | you | silk and velvet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 4 | place | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dwell | shall | you | rule | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rule=Location | ||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | your home | my richest castle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product |
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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