Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 56

They will never return to Bear's Island."

Who acts: sailors · What happens: not return · To what, where: Island

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 (sailors), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 return	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 return	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 return	advmod
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Island	case
6	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Island	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Bear	case
8	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 return	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not return	future	sailors = sailor		Bear's Island				vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result

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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