Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 163
"We shall have no time this evening," said he, spreading out his prettiest umbrella over the child. "
Who acts: We, Hjalmar · What happens: have, say, spread out · To what, where: prettiest umbrella · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Hjalmar), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spreading | punct |
| 14 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 spreading | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 umbrella | nmod:poss |
| 17 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 umbrella | amod |
| 18 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spreading | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 child | det |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spreading | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | We | evening; time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hjalmar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | spread out | gerund | Hjalmar not said here | Hjalmar's prettiest umbrella | over the child | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme over child=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: «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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