Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 58
As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see."
Who acts: we, beings · What happens: rise, not see · To what, where: water, unknown regions
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, beings), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 rise | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rise | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rise | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 land | cc |
| 10 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 land | discourse |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 land | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rise | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rise | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 rise | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rise | aux |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rise | nsubj |
| 21 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 regions | case |
| 23 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 regions | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 glorious | cc |
| 25 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 unknown | conj |
| 26 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rise | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 see | obj |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 regions | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 rise | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | we | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | infinitive · do-support | beings = being | unknown regions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to region=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not see | shall | we | unknown regions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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