Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 198
"Yes, but let me see for myself," he replied; and they were obliged to give him the books.
Who acts: you, Ole · What happens: let, see, reply, oblige, give · To what, where: Ole, books · 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 (you, Ole), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 myself | case |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 see | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 obliged | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obliged | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 books | det |
| 23 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Ole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Ole not said here | for Ole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Ole | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | books = book | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | the books | Ole | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient book=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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