Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 70
In two days we will start for dear, friendly, peaceful Skjagen.
Who acts: we · What happens: start
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 start | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 start | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 start | aux |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dear | case |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 start | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 friendly | punct |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dear | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Skjagen | punct |
| 12 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Skjagen | amod |
| 13 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friendly | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | future | we | day | for dear | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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