Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 93
Help!” cried the young ladies, and they quickly put out the fire.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: cry, put out · To what, where: young ladies, fire
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 (ladies), 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 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | compound |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ladies | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ladies | amod |
| 7 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the young ladies | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put out in a quote | past | ladies = lady | the fire | quickly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |
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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