Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 54
"There, let the thing rest," replied Martin.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: let, reply · To what, where: thing rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 let | expl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rest | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | compound |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the thing rest | there | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Martin | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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