Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 52
And we may even get there sooner," whispered one of her companions. "
Who acts: we · What happens: get, whisper · To what, where: one
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | advcl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 whispered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 companions | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 companions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | may | we | there | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | past | we not said here | one of heart's companions | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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