Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 11

It is the coast of Ireland that they see, but the passengers are still asleep; they will not be called till they are exactly over England.

Who acts: wire, trader, passengers · What happens: be, see, not call · To what, where: coast, that, passengers, England · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wire, trader, passengers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 coast	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coast	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coast	det
4	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 coast	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 see	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coast	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asleep	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 asleep	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 passengers	det
13	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 asleep	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 asleep	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 asleep	advmod
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 see	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj:pass
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 called	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 asleep	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 England	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 England	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 England	cop
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	28 England	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 England	case
28	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 coast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	wire	the coast			of Ireland	tree rules
2	see	present	trader	that				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	is	present	the passengers			still	asleep property	tree rules
4	not call	future · passive		passengers = passenger				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is	present	passengers = passenger		England		exactly property	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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