Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 182
“Then good-bye,” said the Rats; and they went home.
Who acts: Rats · What happens: say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rats), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 3 good | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rats | det |
| 10 | Rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Rats | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Rats = rat | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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