Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 94

Therefore must we always be near a resting place for our feet before sunset; for if we should be flying towards the clouds at the time we recovered our natural shape as men, we should sink deep into the sea.

Who acts: we · What happens: be, fly, recover, sink · To what, where: resting place, clouds, natural shape, sea

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), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	9 place	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 place	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 place	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 place	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 place	cop
6	near	near	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	resting	resting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	compound
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 place	nmod
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 sunset	case
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feet	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 sink	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 flying	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 flying	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 flying	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 flying	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 flying	aux
21	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 sink	advcl
22	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 clouds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clouds	det
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flying	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flying	obl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 recovered	nsubj
29	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 time	acl:relcl
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shape	nmod:poss
31	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shape	amod
32	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recovered	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 men	case
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 recovered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flying	punct
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 sink	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 sink	aux
38	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 place	parataxis
39	deep	deep	ADV	_	42 sea	advmod
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 sea	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sea	det
42	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sink	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	we		a resting place		for our feet before sunset; always, therefore property	tree rules
2	fly a condition, not said to happen	should · progressive	we		the clouds	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards cloud=Destination
3	recover	past	we	our natural shape			as men	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
4	sink	should	we	the sea				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=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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