Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 96
Oh! pray let me out, And like a lamb led to slaughter I'll betroth you, no doubt, To my daughter.'"
Who acts: lamb, I · What happens: pray, let out, lead, slaughter, betroth · To what, where: me, lamb, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamb, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 pray | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 betroth | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 betroth | cc |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 lamb | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lamb | det |
| 11 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 betroth | obl |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lamb | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 slaughter | mark |
| 14 | slaughter | slaughter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 led | xcomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 betroth | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 betroth | aux |
| 17 | betroth | betroth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 betroth | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 doubt | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 doubt | det |
| 21 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 betroth | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 daughter | punct |
| 23 | To | to | ADP | _ | 25 daughter | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 betroth | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | let out | infinitive | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | participle | a lamb not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | slaughter | to-infinitive | a lamb not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | betroth | future | I | you | like a lamb; no doubt obl | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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