Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 40

"And now we're going to begin.

Who acts: we · What happens: go, begin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 going	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 begin	mark
8	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	we				now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	begin in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here						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: «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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