Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 1

Yes, in a thousand years people will fly on the wings of steam through the air, over the ocean!

Who acts: people · What happens: fly · To what, where: wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 years	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fly	obl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fly	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 wings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wings	det
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fly	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 steam	case
14	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wings	nmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 air	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ocean	punct
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 ocean	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ocean	det
21	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	future	people			the wings of steam	year	through the air; over the ocean	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on wing=Location

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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