Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 201
He is about to fly back, and will not return here for a hundred years.
Who acts: return · What happens: be, fly back, not return
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 (return), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fly | mark |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 fly | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | parataxis |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 return | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 return | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | return | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly back | to-infinitive | return not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not return | future | here | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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