Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 24

We are so glad to hear it,' said they, we were talking about it ourselves the other day.'

Who acts: We, ladies, talking · What happens: be, hear, say, talk, ourselve · To what, where: beat · 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 (We, ladies, talking), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 glad	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talking	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 talking	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 talking	aux
15	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ourselves	csubj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talking	obl
18	ourselves	ourselve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ourselves	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	We			glad property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	We not said here	beat			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	ladies = lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	talk	past · progressive	we			about beat	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	ourselve	present	talking		day		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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