Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 118

To-morrow morning we shall be quite dead; and you must tell little Ida to bury us in the garden, near to the grave of the canary; then, in the summer we shall wake up and be more beautiful than ever."

Who acts: we, you · What happens: be, tell, bury, wake up · To what, where: little Ida, us, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	obl
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 dead	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	parataxis
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Ida	amod
16	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bury	mark
18	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	xcomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bury	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bury	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grave	punct
24	near	near	ADP	_	27 grave	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 grave	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grave	det
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bury	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 canary	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 canary	det
30	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grave	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 wake	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 wake	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 then	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 summer	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 summer	det
36	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wake	obl
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 wake	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 wake	aux
39	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	parataxis
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 wake	compound:prt
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 beautiful	cc
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 beautiful	cop
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 beautiful	advmod
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wake	conj
45	than	than	ADP	_	46 ever	case
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 beautiful	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	shall	we				morning	dead property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	must	you		little Ida				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ida=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bury not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	us		the garden		near the grave of the canary	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in garden=Destination
4	wake up	shall	we				then; summer		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	infinitive	we not said here					beautiful property	tree rules

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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