Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 30
In a few minutes the sun will rise, and you must die."
Who acts: sun, you · What happens: rise, die
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, you), 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 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rise | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rise | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rise | aux |
| 8 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rise | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rise | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | future | the sun | minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | must | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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