Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 32

In the following year, one of the sisters would be fifteen: but as each was a year younger than the other, the youngest would have to wait five years before her turn came to rise up from the bottom of the ocean, and see the earth as we do.

Who acts: youngest, turn, we · What happens: follow, be, have, wait, come, rise up · To what, where: fifteen, year, bottom, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (youngest, turn, 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	_	4 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sisters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sisters	det
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fifteen	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fifteen	cop
12	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sisters	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 younger	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 younger	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 younger	mark
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 year	det
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 year	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 younger	obl:unmarked
20	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 one	advcl
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 younger	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youngest	det
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 have	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
29	to	to	PART	_	30 wait	mark
30	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wait	obl:unmarked
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 came	mark
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 turn	nmod:poss
35	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wait	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 rise	mark
38	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 came	xcomp
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 rise	compound:prt
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 bottom	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bottom	det
42	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rise	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 ocean	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ocean	det
45	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bottom	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 see	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 see	cc
48	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 earth	det
50	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 see	obj
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 do	mark
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 do	nsubj
53	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 see	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	would		fifteen			tree rules
3	is a	past		each year			tree rules
4	have	would	the youngest			year	tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here			year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	shadow's turn				tree rules
7	rise up	to-infinitive	shadow's turn not said here		the bottom of the ocean		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bottom=Initial_Location
8	see	infinitive	the youngest not said here	the earth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus
9	do	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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