Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 79

Let my shell, the fresh young tree, wither, or be hewn down, and burnt to ashes, and scattered to all the winds!"

Who acts: you, shell · What happens: let, wither, hewn down, burnt, scatter · To what, where: shell

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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, shell), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shell	nmod:poss
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shell	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wither	punct
10	wither	wither	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hewn	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 hewn	cc
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 hewn	aux:pass
14	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Let	xcomp
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 hewn	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burnt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 burnt	cc
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hewn	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 ashes	case
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 burnt	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scattered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scattered	cc
23	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 burnt	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 winds	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 winds	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 winds	det
27	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 scattered	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	my shell and the fresh young tree		tree rules
2	wither	infinitive	you not said here			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hewn down	infinitive · passive	my shell and the fresh young tree not said here			tree rules
4	burnt	participle			to ashes	tree rules
5	scatter	participle			to all winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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