Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 11

“Just up to the middle of my boot,” said the child; “but then I must go into the deep hole.”

Who acts: middle · What happens: say, go · To what, where: child, deep hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle), 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	_	6 middle	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	6 middle	advmod
3	up	up	ADP	_	6 middle	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 boot	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boot	nmod:poss
9	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 middle	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 middle	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 go	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 hole	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hole	det
24	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hole	amod
25	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the middle of my boot	the child					tree rules
2	go in a quote	must	the middle of my boot = middle			the deep hole	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location

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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