Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 71
"Do you think so?" said she; and then they climbed up to the table, and stood in their old places.
Who acts: you, sweep, heads · What happens: think, say, climb up, stand · To what, where: table, old places · 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 (you, sweep, heads), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 climbed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 climbed | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 climbed | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 climbed | nsubj |
| 14 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 climbed | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climbed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 climbed | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 places | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 places | nmod:poss |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 places | amod |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | sweep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | climb up | past | heads = head | the table | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to table=Destination | |||
| 4 | stand | past | heads = head not said here | heads's old places | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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