Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 4
When we are at the end of the story, we shall know more than we know now: but to begin.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, know, begin · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 end | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 end | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 know | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 know | advmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 begin | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 begin | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 begin | mark |
| 22 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | at the end | of the story | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | shall | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | present | we | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | begin | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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