Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 187
Let us now take the boat," said the fairy: "a sail on the cool waters will refresh us.
Who acts: us, sail · What happens: take, say, refresh · To what, where: boat, fairy, us · 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, sail), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fairy | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 refresh | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 refresh | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sail | det |
| 15 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 refresh | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 18 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 waters | amod |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sail | nmod |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 refresh | aux |
| 21 | refresh | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 refresh | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | us | the boat | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | refresh | future | a sail on the cool waters | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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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