Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 54
“'Yes, many a time have I wept for your sake,' said she. '
Who acts: many, mother · What happens: have, weep, say · 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 (many, 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 many | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 many | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wept | nsubj |
| 10 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sake | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | many | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | past | mother | for your sake | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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