Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 12
There they will first step on European shore, in the land of Shakespeare, as the educated call it; in the land of politics, the land of machines, as it is called by others.
Who acts: passengers, others · What happens: step, educate, call · To what, where: European shore, call · 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 (passengers, others), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 step | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 step | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 step | aux |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 step | advmod |
| 5 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shore | amod |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 step | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 land | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 step | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Shakespeare | case |
| 14 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 land | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 call | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 call | det |
| 18 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 call | amod |
| 19 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 step | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 call | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 land | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 step | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 politics | case |
| 26 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 land | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 land | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 land | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 machines | case |
| 31 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 land | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 called | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 called | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 called | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 called | aux:pass |
| 36 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 step | parataxis |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 others | case |
| 38 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 called | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | future | passengers = passenger | European shore; there | in the land of Shakespeare; first property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | educate speech: other | participle | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | others | call | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
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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