Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 51
“'True; but first we went to school to learn somewhat,' said she; 'and then we were confirmed.
Who acts: we, woman · What happens: go, learn, say, confirm · To what, where: school, we · 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 (we, woman), 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 | _ | 3 True | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 True | punct |
| 3 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 went | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 True | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 learn | mark |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 13 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 12 learn | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 True | conj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 True | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 True | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 confirmed | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 confirmed | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 confirmed | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 24 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 True | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 True | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | we | school | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | learn in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | somewhat property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | confirm in a quote | past · passive | we | then | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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