Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 128

But the time of thy life shall then be shortened; the line of years that awaited thee here amid the free nature shall shrink to but a small tale.

Who acts: line, free nature · What happens: shorten, await, shrink · To what, where: time, thee

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (line, free nature), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 shortened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shortened	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shortened	aux
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 shortened	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 shortened	aux:pass
10	shortened	shorten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 line	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 line	det
13	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shortened	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 line	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 awaited	nsubj
17	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 line	acl:relcl
18	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 awaited	obj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 awaited	advmod
20	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 awaited	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nature	det
22	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nature	amod
23	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shrink	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 shrink	aux
25	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 awaited	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	25 shrink	obl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 tale	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tale	det
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tale	amod
30	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 line	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shortened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shorten	shall · passive		the time of thy life		then	the line of years but a small tale obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	await	past	the line of years but a small tale	thee	here			tree rules
3	shrink	shall	the free nature					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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