Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 102
Two days longer we can remain here, and then must we fly away to a beautiful land which is not our home; and how can we take you with us?
Who acts: we, beautiful land · What happens: remain, fly away, not be, take · To what, where: home, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, beautiful land), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 remain | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 remain | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 remain | aux |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 remain | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fly | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fly | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 fly | advmod |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fly | aux |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fly | nsubj |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remain | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 fly | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 land | amod |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fly | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 home | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 home | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 home | advmod |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 land | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 take | cc |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 take | advmod |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 take | nsubj |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remain | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 us | case |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | can | we | here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly away | must | we | then | to a beautiful land result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | a beautiful land | our home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | can | we | you | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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