Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 136
"They will excuse you, as you were asleep," said the East Wind; and then they flew on faster than ever.
Who acts: Winds, you, East Wind · What happens: excuse, be, say, fly · To what, where: you, faster · 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 (Winds, you, East Wind), 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 excuse | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 excuse | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 excuse | aux |
| 4 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 excuse | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asleep | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 asleep | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | cop |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 excuse | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 excuse | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 excuse | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wind | det |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wind | compound |
| 16 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flew | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 flew | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 faster | case |
| 23 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 flew | obl |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 faster | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | future | Winds = wind | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | you | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the East Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fly | past | Winds = wind | faster | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fast=Location |
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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