Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 21

Centuries will pass by, swans will fly forth from the nest, men will see them and hear them in the world, before it shall be said in spirit and in truth, "This is the last swan--the last song from the swan's nest."

Who acts: Centuries, swans, men, This · What happens: pass by, fly, see, hear, say, be · To what, where: nest, breasts, world, spirit, last swan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Centuries, swans, men, This), 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	Centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pass	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 pass	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct
6	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fly	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	aux
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 fly	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fly	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hear	cc
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hear	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hear	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 said	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 said	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	aux:pass
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pass	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 spirit	case
31	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 truth	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 truth	case
34	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spirit	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 swan	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 swan	punct
37	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 swan	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 swan	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 swan	det
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 swan	amod
41	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spirit	conj
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 song	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 song	det
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 song	amod
45	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swan	conj
46	from	from	ADP	_	50 nest	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 swan	det
48	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 nest	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 swan	case
50	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 song	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pass	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass by	future	Centuries				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	future	swans		the nest	forth property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory
3	see	future	men	breasts = breast			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	hear	infinitive	men not said here	breasts = breast	the world		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	shall · passive		nest	spirit and truth and the last swan and the last song from the swan's nest		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in spirit=Manner
6	is a in a quote	present	This	the last swan and the last song from the swan's nest			tree rules

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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