Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 49

Now we shall expect to hear what you dream of to-night," said the youngest brother, as he showed his sister her bedroom.

Who acts: we, you, youngest brother, sun · What happens: expect, hear, dream, say, show · To what, where: bedroom, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, youngest brother, sun), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 expect	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 expect	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 expect	aux
4	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 expect	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hear	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 dream	nsubj
9	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 dream	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 to	punct
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dream	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brother	det
18	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 brother	amod
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 showed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 showed	nsubj
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showed	iobj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bedroom	nmod:poss
27	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	expect	shall	we			now	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	dream	present	you			night	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the youngest brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	show in a quote	past	sun	Eliza's bedroom	sun's sister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient bedroom=Topic

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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