Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 132

Then the years that would have belonged to thee will be contracted to half the span of the ephemeral fly, that lives but a day: one night, and thy life-taper shall be blown out--the leaves of the tree will wither and be blown away, to become green never again!"

Who acts: years, ephemeral fly, leaves · What happens: belong, contract, live, blow out, wither, blow away · To what, where: life taper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (years, ephemeral fly, leaves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 years	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 contracted	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 belonged	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 belonged	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 belonged	aux
7	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 years	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 thee	case
9	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 belonged	obl
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 contracted	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 contracted	aux:pass
12	contracted	contract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 span	case
14	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	16 span	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 span	det
16	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 contracted	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 fly	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fly	det
19	ephemeral	ephemeral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fly	amod
20	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 span	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lives	punct
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lives	nsubj
23	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	acl:relcl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 day	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lives	obl:unmarked
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 night	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 night	nummod
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 blown	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 blown	cc
32	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 taper	nmod:poss
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 taper	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 life	punct
35	taper	taper	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 blown	nsubj:pass
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 blown	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 blown	aux:pass
38	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 contracted	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 blown	compound:prt
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 wither	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 leaves	det
42	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 wither	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 tree	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tree	det
45	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leaves	nmod
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 wither	aux
47	wither	wither	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 contracted	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 blown	cc
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 blown	aux:pass
50	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 wither	conj
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 blown	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 become	punct
53	to	to	PART	_	54 become	mark
54	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wither	conj
55	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 become	xcomp
56	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	57 again	advmod
57	again	again	ADV	_	54 become	advmod
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 contracted	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 contracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	belong	would · perfect	the years			to thee	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	contract	future · passive			year	to half span of the ephemeral fly result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: to span=Result
3	live	present	the ephemeral fly		day		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow out	shall · passive		thy life taper			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
5	wither	future	the leaves of the tree				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	blow away	infinitive · passive	the leaves of the tree not said here			away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»
7	become	to-infinitive	the leaves of the tree not said here		again	green property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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