Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 86

"You will not go to sea again, Jurgen, I suppose," observed one of the old fishermen. "

Who acts: You, father · What happens: not go, suppose, observe · To what, where: Jurgen, sea, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, father), 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 go	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Jurgen	punct
10	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suppose	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suppose	nsubj
13	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 observed	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 observed	punct
16	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 suppose	ccomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 observed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 fishermen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fishermen	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fishermen	amod
21	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not go in a quote	future	You	Jurgen	sea	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	suppose in a quote	present	father				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	observe	past		one of the old fishermen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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