Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 22

"Only let her come," said the boy, "I'll set her on the stove and then she'll melt."

Who acts: girl, boy · What happens: let, come, say, set, melt · To what, where: girl, stove · 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 (girl, boy), 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	_	3 let	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stove	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stove	det
19	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 melt	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 melt	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 melt	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 melt	aux
24	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 set	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 melt	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 melt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		girl			tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive	girl not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	set in a quote	future	the boy = boy	girl	the stove		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on stove=Destination
5	melt in a quote	future	girl			then	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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