Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 117

Farewell, farewell," cried the prince and princess, and little Gerda wept, and the crow wept; and then, after a few miles, the crow also said "Farewell," and this was the saddest parting.

Who acts: little Gerda, crow, this · What happens: cry, weep, say, be · To what, where: prince, saddest parting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Gerda, crow, this), 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	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Farewell	punct
3	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	1 Farewell	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Farewell	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 princess	cc
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prince	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wept	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wept	cc
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Gerda	amod
14	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wept	nsubj
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crow	det
19	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wept	nsubj
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wept	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 said	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 then	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	28 miles	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 miles	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 miles	amod
28	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 miles	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crow	det
31	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
32	also	also	ADV	_	33 said	advmod
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Farewell	punct
35	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	33 said	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Farewell	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Farewell	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 parting	cc
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 parting	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 parting	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 parting	det
42	saddest	sad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 parting	amod
43	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Farewell	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the prince and princess		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
2	weep in a quote	past	little Gerda			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep in a quote	past	the crow			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the crow		after a few miles; then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic
5	is a in a quote	past	this	the saddest parting		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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