Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 68
"Let everything be buried and forgotten," said Bronne, the merchant. "
Who acts: everything, Bronne · What happens: let, bury, forget, say · To what, where: everything · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, Bronne), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 buried | aux:pass |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forgotten | cc |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 buried | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 merchant | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Bronne | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bury in a quote | infinitive · passive | everything not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | participle | everything not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Bronne | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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