Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 43
“Why, then, we can go together,” said the King's Son.
Who acts: we · What happens: go together, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 then | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together in a quote | can | we | then | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | 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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