Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 35

Whose little lambs will they one day become? thought I; their shepherd will be a gallant knight, perhaps a prince.

Who acts: little lambs, shepherd · What happens: become, think, be · To what, where: I, gallant knight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little lambs, shepherd), 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	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 lambs	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lambs	amod
3	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 become	nsubj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	obl:unmarked
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 thought	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 knight	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shepherd	nmod:poss
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knight	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 knight	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 knight	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 knight	det
18	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 knight	amod
19	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prince	punct
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 prince	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 prince	det
23	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knight	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	become	future	little lambs		day	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	little lambs not said here	I		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
3	is a	future	ladies's shepherd	a gallant knight and a prince		tree rules

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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