Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 4

"Are we to sit here forever?" asked one; "shall we not become hard by sitting so long?

Who acts: we · What happens: be, ask, not become, sit · To what, where: one · 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), 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	_	5 sit	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	cop
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sit	advmod
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 asked	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 become	advmod
17	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 become	advmod
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 sitting	mark
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 become	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 sitting	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	we		here	forever, sit property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past		one			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not become in a quote	shall	we			hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	sit in a quote	gerund	we not said here			long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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