Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 135

"It was very rude of me not to say good-bye to your mother and your brothers," said the prince.

Who acts: board, prince · What happens: be, not say, say · 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 (board, prince), 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 rude	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rude	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 rude	advmod
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 rude	obl
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 say	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rude	conj
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bye	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
13	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 say	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bye	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brothers	cc
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mother	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rude	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 rude	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prince	det
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	board	of the prince = prince; rude property	tree rules
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	board not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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