Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 47
They'll come back again,' repeated the mother eel. '
Who acts: daughter · What happens: come back, repeat · To what, where: mother eel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eel | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eel | compound |
| 11 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | future | daughter | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | daughter not said here | the mother eel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Eventuality |
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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