Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 149
"We must die if we are torn from our stalks," replied the Flowers and the Grass.
Who acts: We, Flowers · What happens: die, tear, reply · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Flowers), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 torn | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 torn | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 torn | aux:pass |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 replied | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 stalks | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stalks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 torn | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Flowers | det |
| 16 | Flowers | Flower | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Grass | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Grass | det |
| 19 | Grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Flowers | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | must | We | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | we | from our stalks | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from stalk=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Flowers and the Grass | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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