Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 44
Well, next time you go into his garden, you must tell one of the flowers that there is going to be a grand ball at the castle, then that flower will tell all the others, and they will fly away to the castle as soon as possible.
Who acts: you, flowers, flower · What happens: go, tell, be, fly away · To what, where: next time, garden, one, grand ball, castle, others · 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 (you, flowers, flower), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 time | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 tell | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 flowers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 going | nsubj |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 going | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 ball | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ball | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ball | det |
| 25 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ball | amod |
| 26 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 castle | det |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ball | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 tell | advmod |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 flower | det |
| 33 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 tell | aux |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | conj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 others | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 others | det |
| 38 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 tell | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fly | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 fly | cc |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 fly | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 fly | aux |
| 43 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | conj |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 fly | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 castle | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 castle | det |
| 47 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fly | obl |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 soon | advmod |
| 49 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 fly | advmod |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 possible | mark |
| 51 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 soon | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | next time not said here | professor's garden | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | must | you | one of the flowers | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | the flowers | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the flowers not said here | a grand ball | the castle | tree rules | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | future | that flower | all others | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | |||
| 6 | fly away | future | flowers = flower | to the castle result; away, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result |
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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