Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 3

They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which will then be in ruins, just as we in our time make pilgrimages to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia.

Who acts: inhabitants, great cities, we · What happens: come over, see, be, make, totter · To what, where: monuments, ruins, pilgrimages

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 (inhabitants, great cities, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:12959): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monuments	det
8	monuments	monument	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cities	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cities	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cities	amod
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 monuments	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ruins	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 ruins	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ruins	aux
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 ruins	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ruins	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 ruins	case
19	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cities	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	27 make	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 make	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 time	nmod:poss
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obl
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	advcl
28	pilgrimages	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 splendors	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 splendors	det
31	tottering	totter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 splendors	amod
32	splendors	splendor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pilgrimages	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Asia	case
34	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Asia	amod
35	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 splendors	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come over	future	inhabitants = inhabitant				over property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	inhabitants = inhabitant not said here	the monuments and the great cities				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monument=Stimulus
3	is	future	the great cities		ruins	then		tree rules
4	make	infinitive	we	pilgrimages		time	to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product
5	totter	gerund						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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