Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 30

“Sit down! sit down!” said they.

Who acts: chairs · What happens: sit down, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chairs), 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	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Sit	compound:prt
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Sit	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	sit down in a quote	infinitive		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit down in a quote	infinitive		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	chairs = chair	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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