Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 20

"Yes, I have seen them," said both the children, and they knew it must be true.

Who acts: children, shapes, ice · What happens: see, say, know, be · To what, where: shapes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, shapes, ice), 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	_	6 seen	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 seen	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc:preconj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 true	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 true	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knew	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	the children = child	shapes = shape		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	past	shapes = shape			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	must	ice		true 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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