Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 86
This tree I shall guard and cherish," she said, "that it may grow large by Christmas Eve, and reach from the ground to the ceiling, to be covered and adorned with flaming candles, golden apples, and little figures.
Who acts: tree, pot · What happens: guard, cherish, say, grow, reach, cover · To what, where: ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, pot), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guard | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 guard | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guard | aux |
| 5 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cherish | cc |
| 7 | cherish | cherish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guard | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | 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 | 5 guard | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grow | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 grow | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 grow | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grow | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 grow | aux |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grow | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Christmas | case |
| 20 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obl |
| 21 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Christmas | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reach | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reach | cc |
| 24 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guard | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reach | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 ceiling | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ceiling | det |
| 30 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reach | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 covered | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 covered | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 covered | aux:pass |
| 34 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 reach | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 adorned | cc |
| 36 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 covered | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 candles | case |
| 38 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 candles | compound |
| 39 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 adorned | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 apples | punct |
| 41 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 apples | amod |
| 42 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 candles | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 figures | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 figures | cc |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 figures | amod |
| 46 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 covered | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | shall | this tree | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | cherish | infinitive | this tree not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | grow | may | pot | by Christmas; large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by christmas=Location | ||||
| 5 | reach | infinitive | this tree not said here | the ground | to the ceiling | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | cover | to-infinitive · passive | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 7 | adorn | participle | with flaming candles and golden apples | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with candle=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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