Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 51
"After three hundred years, thus shall we float into the kingdom of heaven," said she. "
Who acts: we, heart · What happens: float, say · To what, where: kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, heart), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 float | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 float | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 float | advmod |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 float | aux |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 float | nsubj |
| 10 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 float | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heaven | case |
| 15 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kingdom | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 float | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 float | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float in a quote | shall | we | the kingdom of heaven | year | thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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