Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 5

There is no monument here, no memorial on which the traveller can have his name carved, no rocky wall on whose surface he can get it painted; so visitors have the turf cut away for that purpose.

Who acts: monument, traveller, name, surface, visitors, turf · What happens: be, have, carve, get, paint, cut away · To what, where: rocky wall, memorial, surface

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monument, traveller, name, surface), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 monument	det
4	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 is	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 memorial	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 memorial	det
8	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 have	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 traveller	det
12	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 memorial	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 name	nmod:poss
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carved	nsubj
17	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 have	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wall	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 wall	det
20	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wall	amod
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 surface	case
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 surface	nmod:poss
24	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wall	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 surface	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	obj
29	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 get	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 have	advmod
32	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 turf	det
35	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cut	nsubj
36	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 have	ccomp
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 cut	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 purpose	case
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 purpose	det
40	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cut	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no monument		here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	can	the traveller	no rocky wall on no rocky wall on no rocky wall's surface's surface	no memorial		tree rules
3	carve	past	traveller's name				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	can	monument	surface			tree rules
5	paint	participle	surface not said here				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	present	visitors				tree rules
7	cut away	past	the turf			for that purpose; away property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for purpose=Asset
8	name		traveller				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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