Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 17
There is rejoicing and shouting for the names of heroes, poets, and men of science, whom our time does not know, but who will be born after our time in Paris, the centre of Europe, and elsewhere.
Who acts: time · What happens: be, rejoice, shout, not know, bear, name · To what, where: men, science, heroes
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 (time), 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 | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 is | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shouting | cc |
| 5 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rejoicing | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 names | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 names | det |
| 8 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shouting | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heroes | case |
| 10 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 names | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poets | punct |
| 12 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heroes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 men | cc |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rejoicing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 science | case |
| 17 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 know | obj |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 know | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 know | advmod |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 science | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 born | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 born | cc |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 born | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 born | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 born | aux:pass |
| 30 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 know | conj |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 time | nmod:poss |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 born | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Paris | case |
| 35 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 time | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 centre | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 centre | det |
| 38 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Paris | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Europe | case |
| 40 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 centre | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 elsewhere | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 elsewhere | cc |
| 43 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 30 born | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rejoice | gerund | men of science | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | for the names of heroes and poets | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for name=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | our time | science | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bear | future · passive | time | elsewhere property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | name | heroes and poets | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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