Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 50

The student, for whom my wife washes, says that when we die we shall fly from one star to another.

Who acts: wife, student, we · What happens: wash, say, die, fly · To what, where: one star · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, student, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 student	det
2	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whom	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 student	appos
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washes	nsubj
8	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whom	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 student	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 die	mark
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 die	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
14	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fly	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 die	ccomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 star	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 star	nummod
20	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fly	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 another	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 star	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wash	present	my wife		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the student		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	present	we		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	fly	shall	we	one star to another	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from star=Trajectory

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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