Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 18

"We will go to sleep wherever we find ourselves," said the two next, "we shall still be rolling onwards;" and they did certainly fall on the floor, and roll about before they got into the pea-shooter; but they were put in for all that. "

Who acts: We, peas · What happens: go, sleep, find, say, roll, fall · To what, where: ourselves, floor, pea shooter, peas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, peas), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	xcomp
7	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	9 find	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sleep	advcl
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 two	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 said	ccomp
16	next	next	ADV	_	15 two	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rolling	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 rolling	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 rolling	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 rolling	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 rolling	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 rolling	aux
23	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
24	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	23 rolling	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fall	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fall	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fall	aux
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 fall	advmod
31	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 floor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 floor	det
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fall	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 roll	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 roll	cc
37	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 fall	conj
38	about	about	ADV	_	37 roll	advmod
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 got	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 got	nsubj
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 roll	advcl
42	into	into	ADP	_	46 shooter	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 shooter	det
44	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shooter	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 pea	punct
46	shooter	shooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 put	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 put	cc
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 put	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 put	aux:pass
51	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	51 put	compound:prt
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 that	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 that	det
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 put	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	We					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find in a quote	present	we	ourselves			wherever property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	roll in a quote	shall · progressive	we			still	onwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	past · do-support	peas = pea		the floor		certainly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
7	roll about	infinitive	peas = pea not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get	past	peas = pea		the pea shooter			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into shooter=Destination
9	put in	past · passive		peas = pea			for that	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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