Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 21

It was they who cut a road out of the solid rock over the Simplon--such a road, that I need only say to a child of three years old, 'Go down to Italy, you have only to keep in the high road,' and the child will soon arrive in Italy, if he followed my directions."

Who acts: French, I, you, child · What happens: be, say, go down, have, keep, arrive · To what, where: solid rock, high road, Italy, directions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French, I, you, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 rock	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 rock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
11	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rock	amod
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 Simplon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Simplon	det
15	Simplon	Simplon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rock	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 road	punct
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 road	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rock	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 say	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
23	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 say	advmod
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 child	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 years	case
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 old	obl:unmarked
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 child	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Go	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 Go	punct
35	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 say	ccomp
36	down	down	ADV	_	35 Go	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Italy	case
38	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 down	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 have	nsubj
41	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 say	parataxis
42	only	only	ADV	_	44 keep	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 keep	mark
44	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 have	xcomp
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 road	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 road	det
47	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 road	amod
48	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 keep	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 arrive	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 child	det
53	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 arrive	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 arrive	aux
55	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 arrive	advmod
56	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 have	conj
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 Italy	case
58	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 arrive	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 followed	punct
60	if	if	SCONJ	_	62 followed	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 followed	nsubj
62	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 arrive	conj
63	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 directions	nmod:poss
64	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 followed	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	French		the solid rock over the Simplon and such road	cut property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	I			to a child	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to child=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go down	infinitive				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	present	you				tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here		the high road		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location
6	arrive	future	the child		Italy	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	follow a condition, not said to happen	past	child	my directions			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=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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