Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 120
"Now let us have something to eat," said the mother of the Winds.
Who acts: us, mother · What happens: let, have, eat, say · To what, where: us, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, mother), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Winds | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Winds | det |
| 16 | Winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mother | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the mother of the Winds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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