Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 18

The right sort come of themselves; they tap at my forehead and say, 'Here we are.'”

Who acts: right sort, tales · What happens: come, tap, say, be · 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 (right sort, tales), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sort	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sort	amod
3	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 come	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tap	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tap	nsubj
9	tap	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 forehead	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 forehead	nmod:poss
12	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tap	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Here	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Here	punct
17	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 say	ccomp
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 are	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Here	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	present	the right sort	of tales = tale	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location
2	tap	present	tales = tale	at my forehead	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at forehead=Patient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	the right sort not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present		here property	tree rules

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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