Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 63
Real life furnishes us with subjects for the most wonderful fairy tales; for otherwise my beautiful elder-bush could not have grown forth out of the teapot."
Who acts: Real life · What happens: furnish, not grow · To what, where: us, beautiful elder bush, teapot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Real life), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 furnishes | nsubj |
| 3 | furnishes | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 furnishes | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 subjects | case |
| 6 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 furnishes | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tales | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 wonderful | advmod |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tales | amod |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | compound |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 subjects | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grown | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 otherwise | case |
| 15 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 24 grown | obl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bush | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bush | amod |
| 18 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bush | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 elder | punct |
| 20 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 grown | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 grown | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 grown | aux |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 furnishes | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 grown | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 teapot | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 teapot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 teapot | det |
| 29 | teapot | teapot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grown | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 furnishes | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 furnishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | present | Real life | us | with subjects for the wonderful fairy tales | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Recipient with subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not grow | could · perfect · passive | my beautiful elder bush | the teapot | forth property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for otherwise=Beneficiary |
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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