Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 30
"Now we must give up our stories, and exercise these letters," said Ole-Luk-Oie; "One, two--one, two--" So he drilled them till they stood up gracefully, and looked as beautiful as a copy could look.
Who acts: we, Ole, Luk · What happens: give up, say, drill, stand up, look · To what, where: stories, Luk · 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, Ole, Luk), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 give | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stories | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exercise | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 exercise | cc |
| 11 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 letters | det |
| 13 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Luk | punct |
| 19 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ole | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Oie | punct |
| 21 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ole | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 One | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 One | punct |
| 24 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 two | punct |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 One | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 two | punct |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 One | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 two | punct |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 One | appos |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 two | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 drilled | punct |
| 33 | So | so | ADV | _ | 35 drilled | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 drilled | nsubj |
| 35 | drilled | drill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 One | acl:relcl |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 drilled | obj |
| 37 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 stood | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stood | nsubj |
| 39 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 drilled | advcl |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 stood | compound:prt |
| 41 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 39 stood | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 looked | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 looked | cc |
| 44 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 look | advcl |
| 45 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 beautiful | advmod |
| 46 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 looked | xcomp |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 copy | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 copy | det |
| 49 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 beautiful | obl |
| 50 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 look | aux |
| 51 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | parataxis |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up in a quote | must | we | our stories | now | exercise obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drill | past | Ole | Luk | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand up | past | Luk | gracefully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | past | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | look | could | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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