Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 90
The opening spring has brought it forth, the summer will see it in all its splendor, the autumn winds will sweep it away, so that not a leaf, not a fragment of its root shall remain."
Who acts: summer, autumn winds, leaf · What happens: bring, see, sweep away, remain · To what, where: opening spring, plant, splendor
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 (summer, autumn winds, leaf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spring | det |
| 2 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spring | amod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 summer | det |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 splendor | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 splendor | det:predet |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 splendor | nmod:poss |
| 17 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweep | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 winds | det |
| 20 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 winds | compound |
| 21 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sweep | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sweep | aux |
| 23 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sweep | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 sweep | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 remain | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 40 remain | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 remain | mark |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 leaf | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 leaf | det |
| 31 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 remain | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fragment | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 fragment | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 fragment | det |
| 35 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaf | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 root | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 root | nmod:poss |
| 38 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fragment | nmod |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 remain | aux |
| 40 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sweep | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the opening spring | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | future | the summer | plant | plant's splendor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sweep away | future | the autumn winds | plant | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | remain | shall | a leaf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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