Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 54

The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred years.

Who acts: child, we, air · What happens: not know, fly, smile, count, conduct · To what, where: room, good conduct, less

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 (child, we, air), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
9	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	parataxis
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smile	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 smile	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 smile	nsubj
16	smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 joy	case
18	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smile	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 conduct	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 conduct	nmod:poss
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 conduct	amod
22	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smile	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 count	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 count	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 count	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 count	aux
27	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 smile	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 year	nummod
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 less	obl:unmarked
30	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 count	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 years	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 years	nmod:poss
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 hundred	compound
34	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 less	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	the child				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fly	present	we		the room		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through room=Location
3	smile	present	we		air's good conduct	with joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	count	can	we	less			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme
5	conduct		air				nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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