Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 6
To-morrow," said one, "we shall fly away, not to return again till a whole year has passed.
Who acts: we, whole year · What happens: say, fly away, not return, pass · To what, where: one · 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, whole year), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 return | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 return | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 return | mark |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | parataxis |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 return | advmod |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 passed | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 year | amod |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 passed | aux |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 return | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | one | to morrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly away | shall | we | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not return | to-infinitive | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass | present · perfect | a whole year | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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