Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 55

Perhaps we shall never experience a storm of the kind, but our grandchildren may; and we can only hope and pray that all may stay at home while the storm is moving the shields.

Who acts: we, all, storm · What happens: not experience, hope, pray, stay, move · To what, where: storm, home, shields · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, all, storm), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 experience	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 experience	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 experience	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 experience	advmod
5	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 experience	obj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 kind	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 storm	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 may	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 may	cc
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandchildren	nmod:poss
14	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 may	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hope	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hope	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hope	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hope	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 hope	advmod
21	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 experience	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pray	cc
23	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hope	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 stay	mark
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 stay	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 stay	aux
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hope	ccomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 home	case
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stay	obl
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 moving	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 storm	det
32	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 moving	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 moving	aux
34	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 stay	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shields	det
36	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 moving	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 experience	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not experience	shall	we	a storm		perhaps property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus
2	hope	can	we				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pray	infinitive	we not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	stay	may	all		home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	move	present · progressive	the storm	the shields			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shield=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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