Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 25

"Then we may be killed after all, as the boys say; and hark! they are singing again."

Who acts: boys · What happens: kill, say, sing · To what, where: we, hark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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 killed	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 killed	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 killed	nsubj:pass
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 killed	aux:pass
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 killed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 say	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boys	det
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 singing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hark	cc
16	hark	hark	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 singing	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 hark	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 singing	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 singing	aux
20	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 say	ccomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 singing	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 singing	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	kill in a quote	may · passive		we	after all; then	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: express in a quote	present	the boys			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	boys = boy	hark	again	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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