Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 42
"That you may not think this is only a dream that I have told you," he said, "you will find on your bed a withered leaf."
Who acts: That, this, brother, you · What happens: not think, be, tell, say, find, wither · To what, where: dream, you, withered leaf, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, this, brother, you), 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 | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 think | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 think | advmod |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 dream | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dream | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 dream | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dream | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bed | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bed | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 leaf | det |
| 30 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 leaf | amod |
| 31 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | may | That | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a dream | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | find in a quote | future | you | a withered leaf | your bed | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic | |||
| 6 | wither in a quote | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: 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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