Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 31

We will sing you to sleep, and shake you to sleep, and it will do your old twigs good; they will even crackle with pleasure.

Who acts: We, sleep, twigs · What happens: sing, sleep, shake, do, crackle · To what, where: you, old twigs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sleep, twigs), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sing	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shake	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shake	cc
9	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 shake	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shake	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shake	conj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 twigs	nmod:poss
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 twigs	amod
20	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 do	obj
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 do	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 crackle	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 crackle	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 crackle	aux
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 crackle	advmod
26	crackle	crackle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 pleasure	case
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crackle	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	future	We		you		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	We not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shake	infinitive	We not said here	you			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	sleep	to-infinitive	We not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	future	sleep	your old twigs			tree rules
6	crackle	future	twigs = twig			with pleasure	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=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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