Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 25
I must entreat you," said she, "to go out with me into the wide world, for we cannot stay here."
Who acts: I, Chinaman, we · What happens: entreat, say, go out, not stay · To what, where: you, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Chinaman, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 entreat | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 entreat | aux |
| 3 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 entreat | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreat | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreat | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entreat | conj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 stay | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 stay | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stay | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 stay | advmod |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stay | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreat | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | must | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Chinaman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go out | to-infinitive | the wide world | with me; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not stay | can | we | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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