Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 49

“Well, then, let her come to him!” said the old ones.

Who acts: wife, old ones · What happens: let, come, say · To what, where: wife, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, old ones), 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	_	6 let	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 let	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ones	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		wife		then	tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here		forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	say speech: express	past	the old ones				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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