Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 159

We seem to be passing through the valley of death to the garden of paradise," said the prince.

Who acts: We · What happens: seem, pass, say · To what, where: valley, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 passing	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 passing	aux
5	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seem	advcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 valley	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 paradise	case
15	paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 garden	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seem	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	We				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	pass	to-infinitive · progressive	We not said here		the valley of death	to the garden of paradise	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through valley=Initial_Location to garden=Destination
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	We not said here	the prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic

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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