Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 65
"Oh, yes; but I shall gain permission easily," said Gerda, "for when Kay hears that I am here, he will come out and fetch me in immediately."
Who acts: Gerda, Kay · What happens: gain, say, hear, be, come out, fetch · To what, where: permission, Gerda · 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 (Gerda, Kay), 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 | _ | 9 gain | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 gain | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 gain | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gain | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gain | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 gain | aux |
| 9 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gain | obj |
| 11 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 9 gain | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gain | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gain | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hears | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 hears | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 hears | mark |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 hears | advmod |
| 20 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hears | nsubj |
| 21 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 here | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 here | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 here | cop |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 come | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 here | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hears | ccomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fetch | cc |
| 32 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 come | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 fetch | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 immediately | case |
| 35 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 32 fetch | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 hears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain in a quote | shall | Gerda | permission | easily property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present | Kay | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Gerda | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come out in a quote | future | Kay | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | Kay not said here | Gerda | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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