Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 139
"This shall be your pretty coffin," she said; "and by and by, when my cousins come to visit me, they shall help me to bury you out in the garden; so that next summer you may grow up again more beautiful than ever."
Who acts: This, Ida, cousins, you · What happens: be, say, come, visit, help, bury out · To what, where: pretty coffin, Ida, you, 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 (This, Ida, cousins, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 coffin | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 coffin | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 coffin | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 coffin | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coffin | amod |
| 7 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coffin | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 coffin | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 by | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 by | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 by | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 come | advmod |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 come | nsubj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 visit | mark |
| 24 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 visit | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 help | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 help | aux |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 bury | mark |
| 32 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 help | xcomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 bury | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 bury | compound:prt |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 garden | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 garden | det |
| 37 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bury | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 grow | punct |
| 39 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 42 summer | case |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 so | fixed |
| 41 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 summer | amod |
| 42 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 grow | obl |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 grow | nsubj |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 grow | aux |
| 45 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | parataxis |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 grow | compound:prt |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 48 more | advmod |
| 48 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 beautiful | advmod |
| 49 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 grow | xcomp |
| 50 | than | than | ADP | _ | 51 ever | case |
| 51 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 49 beautiful | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | shall | This | your pretty coffin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ida | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | my cousins | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | visit in a quote | to-infinitive | my cousins not said here | Ida | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | help in a quote | shall | cousins = cousin | Ida | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bury out in a quote | to-infinitive | Ida not said here | you | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 7 | grow up in a quote | may | you | summer | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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