Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 25

Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities which we in our time know not, the travellers pass; but here and there, on the rich sites of those that time shall bring forth, the caravan sometimes descends, and departs thence again.

Who acts: we, travellers, time, caravan · What happens: not know, pass, bring, descend, depart · To what, where: cities, remains, rich sites

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 (we, travellers, time, caravan), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	3 remains	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 remains	det
3	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 pass	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cities	case
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cities	amod
6	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remains	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 Danube	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Danube	det
9	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Danube	amod
10	Danube	Danube	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cities	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cities	punct
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cities	appos
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 know	obj
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 time	nmod:poss
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 know	obl
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cities	acl:relcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remains	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 travellers	det
22	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	nsubj
23	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 here	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 here	cc
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 pass	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 there	cc
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 here	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sites	punct
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 sites	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sites	det
32	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sites	amod
33	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 those	case
35	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 sites	nmod
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 time	det
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bring	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bring	aux
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sites	acl:relcl
40	forth	forth	ADV	_	39 bring	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 descends	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 caravan	det
43	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 descends	nsubj
44	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 descends	advmod
45	descends	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 pass	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 departs	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 departs	cc
48	departs	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 descends	conj
49	thence	thence	ADV	_	50 again	advmod
50	again	again	ADV	_	48 departs	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present	we	cities		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	pass	present	the travellers		the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube; here		on the rich sites of those	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over remains=Location
3	bring	shall	that time	the rich sites of those not said here			forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent site=Theme
4	descend	present	the caravan				sometimes property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	depart	present	the caravan not said here			again		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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