Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 47
We shall soon climb too high for any one to reach us, and we shall come through a hole in the top out into the wide world."
Who acts: We · What happens: climb, reach, come · To what, where: us, hole
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 climb | advmod |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 climb | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climb | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 climb | advcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 climb | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 hole | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hole | det |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 top | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 top | det |
| 23 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hole | nmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 top | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 27 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 world | amod |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | shall | We | for any one; soon property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | We not said here | us | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | shall | we | a hole in the top | into the wide world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial_Location into world=Destination |
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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