Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 37

Ah, we shall never see her again; perhaps she has not discovered how to help herself, as you and the wise men said she would.

Who acts: we, woman, you · What happens: not see, not discover, help, say · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, woman, 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 discovered	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 discovered	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 discovered	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 discovered	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 discovered	advmod
14	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 see	parataxis
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 help	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 help	mark
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 discovered	advcl
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 help	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 men	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 men	det
24	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 men	amod
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 you	conj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 help	parataxis
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 would	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	shall	we	woman	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	not discover	present · perfect	woman			perhaps property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	help	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	past	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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