Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 153
“In the tea-pot,” said his mother; “and there she may remain.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: say, remain · To what, where: tea pot · 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 (mother), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 pot | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 4 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pot | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tea | punct |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pot | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pot | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 there | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 “ | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remain | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remain | aux |
| 18 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man's mother | the tea pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remain in a quote | may | mother | vn exist-47.1 «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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