Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 19
“I will sing them all, all!” said the mother.
Who acts: mother · What happens: sing, say · To what, where: songs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sing | aux |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sing | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | 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 | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | future | the mother = mother | songs = song | all obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the 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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