Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 119
Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another--without regard to age or rank.
Who acts: Father · What happens: say · To what, where: thou, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mother | cc |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brother | cc |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | conj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 say | obl |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | fixed |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 regard | punct |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 regard | case |
| 15 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 age | case |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 regard | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 rank | cc |
| 19 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 regard | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Father and mother | thou | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to one=Recipient |
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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