Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 7
Let us contemplate here and there one of the company of martyrs--the company which will receive new members until the world itself shall pass away.
Who acts: you, us, one, world · What happens: let, contemplate, receive, pass away · To what, where: us, new members
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, one, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | contemplate | contemplate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 contemplate | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 receive | cc |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 one | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 receive | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 martyrs | case |
| 12 | martyrs | martyr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 company | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 company | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 company | det |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 martyrs | conj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 receive | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 receive | aux |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 members | amod |
| 20 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 receive | obj |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 pass | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pass | nsubj |
| 24 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 23 world | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pass | aux |
| 26 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 receive | advcl |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 pass | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contemplate | infinitive | us not said here | here | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | receive | future | one of the company of martyrs and the company | new members | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass away | shall | the world world | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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