Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 23
In the country they have more knowledge; shall we fly away there and wait? we shall be nearer to spring then, certainly."
Who acts: stars, we · What happens: have, fly away, wait, be, spring · To what, where: more knowledge, country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 country | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 country | acl:relcl |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 knowledge | amod |
| 7 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fly | aux |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 fly | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 fly | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wait | cc |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fly | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 nearer | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 nearer | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nearer | cop |
| 20 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 fly | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 spring | mark |
| 22 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nearer | xcomp |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 fly | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 certainly | punct |
| 25 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 11 fly | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | stars = star | more knowledge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly away | shall | we | the country; there | then | away, certainly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in country=Location | ||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | we not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | shall | we | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spring | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «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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