Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 84
Little Molly and Anthony often stood by this mountain, and one day Molly said, "Do you dare to knock and say, 'Lady Halle, Lady Halle, open the door: Tannhauser is here!'"
Who acts: Little Molly, Molly, you, Tannhauser · What happens: stand, say, dare, knock, open, be · To what, where: Lady Halle, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Molly, Molly, you, Tannhauser), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Molly | amod |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Anthony | cc |
| 4 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Molly | conj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dare | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 dare | punct |
| 18 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dare | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 dare | nsubj |
| 20 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 knock | mark |
| 22 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dare | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 say | cc |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 knock | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Halle | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Halle | punct |
| 27 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Halle | compound |
| 28 | Halle | Halle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 dare | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Lady | punct |
| 30 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Halle | conj |
| 31 | Halle | Halle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Lady | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 open | punct |
| 33 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 dare | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 door | det |
| 35 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 open | obj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 here | punct |
| 37 | Tannhauser | Tannhauser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 here | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 here | cop |
| 39 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | parataxis |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 here | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 here | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Little Molly and Anthony | by this mountain; often property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Molly | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dare in a quote | present · do-support | you | Lady Halle and Lady | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | knock in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | open in a quote | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | Tannhauser | here property | tree rules |
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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