Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 68
“I only do His bidding!” said Death.
Who acts: Death, Lord · What happens: do, say, bid · To what, where: bidding · 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 (Death, Lord), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 5 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Death | Lord's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Death | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bid in a quote | Lord | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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