Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 117
Now, you see, this is a little history which will never end; as long as the world exists, there will always be men like these five brothers.
Who acts: you, this, little history, world, men · What happens: see, be, not end, exist · To what, where: little history
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, little history, world), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 history | punct |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 history | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 history | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 history | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 history | amod |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 end | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 end | advmod |
| 14 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 history | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 exists | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exists | nsubj |
| 21 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 be | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exists | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 be | expl |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 be | aux |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 be | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 long | conj |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 be | nsubj |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 brothers | case |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 brothers | det |
| 30 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 brothers | nummod |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 men | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | now | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a little history | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not end | future | a little history | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | exist | present | the world | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be | future | men like this five brothers | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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