Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 88

When we die--so at least says the student, for whom my wife does the washing--we shall fly about as light as a feather from one such a star to the other.

Who acts: we, wife · What happens: die, say, do, fly · To what, where: student, washing, one star · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wife), 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	3 die	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	advcl
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	3 die	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 least	case
7	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 says	ccomp
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 student	det
10	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 does	obj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 does	nsubj
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 washing	det
18	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 does	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 fly	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fly	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fly	aux
22	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	25 light	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 light	advmod
25	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fly	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 feather	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 feather	det
28	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 light	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	33 star	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 star	nummod
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 star	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 star	det
33	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fly	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 other	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fly	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present	we				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	present		the student			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent student=Topic
3	do	present	my wife	the washing			tree rules
4	fly	shall	we		such one star	to the other; light property	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from star=Initial_Location to other=Destination

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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