Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 68
The bird of good omen shall be yours, and you shall become a rich and happy man; your house shall rise up like King Waldemar's towers, and shall be richly adorned with marble statues, like those at Prastoe.
Who acts: bird, you, house · What happens: be, become, rise up, adorn · To what, where: yours, rich man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, you, house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yours | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 omen | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 omen | amod |
| 5 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 yours | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 yours | cop |
| 8 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 become | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 yours | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happy | cc |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rich | conj |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rise | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rise | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 rise | aux |
| 23 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 become | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 rise | compound:prt |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 towers | case |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 towers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 King | flat |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 29 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rise | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 adorned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 adorned | cc |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 adorned | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 adorned | aux:pass |
| 34 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 35 adorned | advmod |
| 35 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rise | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 statues | case |
| 37 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 statues | compound |
| 38 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 adorned | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 those | punct |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 those | case |
| 41 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 statues | nmod |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 Prastoe | case |
| 43 | Prastoe | Prastoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 those | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | the bird of good omen | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | shall | you | a rich man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise up | shall | your house | like King's towers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | adorn | shall · passive | your house not said here | with marble statues like those; richly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with statue=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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