Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 75
“'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor.
Who acts: children · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: children, old sailor, grand children · 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 (children), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sailor | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sailor | amod |
| 14 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 17 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 children | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yes | punct |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 children | det |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 children | cop |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 children | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 children | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 grand | punct |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 children | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 strength | case |
| 28 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 vigor | cc |
| 30 | vigor | vigor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 strength | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Mary's children | children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old sailor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | our grand children | 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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