Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 100
“By your leave!” said the Councillor to the Hostess, who came bustling towards him.
Who acts: leave, Hostess · What happens: say, come, bustle · To what, where: Councillor, Hostess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, Hostess), 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 leave | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 leave | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nmod:poss |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Councillor | det |
| 9 | Councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Hostess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hostess | det |
| 12 | Hostess | Hostess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Hostess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | bustling | bustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 came | xcomp |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bustling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | your leave | the Councillor | the Hostess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Topic to hostess=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Hostess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bustle | gerund | the Hostess not said here | towards leave | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
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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