Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 34
Sleep sweetly, the clouds will drop snow upon you, which will be quite a cover-lid, warm and sheltering to your feet.
Who acts: you, clouds · What happens: sleep, drop, be, shelter · To what, where: snow, cover lid
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 (you, clouds), 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 | Sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 1 Sleep | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drop | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drop | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 drop | aux |
| 7 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sleep | conj |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drop | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 drop | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lid | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lid | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lid | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lid | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 lid | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lid | det |
| 17 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lid | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cover | punct |
| 19 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drop | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 warm | punct |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lid | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sheltering | cc |
| 23 | sheltering | shelter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 warm | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sheltering | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | imperative | you not said here | sweetly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drop | future | the clouds | snow | upon you | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme upon you=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | future | quite cover lid | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shelter | gerund | to your feet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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