Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 27
"If we were but safely down from the table!" said she; "I shall not be happy till we are really out in the world."
Who acts: we, sweep · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: 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 (we, sweep), 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 | _ | 10 table | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 down | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 down | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 down | cop |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 down | cc |
| 6 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 7 down | advmod |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 table | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 table | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 table | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 happy | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 happy | cop |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | parataxis |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 out | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 out | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 out | cop |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 out | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 happy | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 out | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | we | down, safely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | sweep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | shall | sweep | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | the world | out property | tree rules |
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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