Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 188
But we shall not move from the spot, although the boat may rock on the swelling water; the countries of the world will glide before us, but we shall remain still."
Who acts: we, countries · What happens: not move, glide, remain · To what, where: spot
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, countries), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 move | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rock | punct |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rock | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rock | aux |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | compound |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rock | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 glide | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 countries | det |
| 21 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 glide | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 countries | nmod |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 glide | aux |
| 26 | glide | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 move | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 glide | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 remain | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 remain | cc |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 remain | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 remain | aux |
| 33 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 glide | conj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 remain | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | shall | we | the spot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | glide | future | the countries of the world | before us | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | remain | shall | we | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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