Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 84
"Now let us have our revenge," they cried.
Who acts: you, us, storks, our · What happens: let, have, cry, revenge · To what, where: us, revenge · 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 (you, us, storks, our), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | our revenge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | storks = stork | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | revenge in a quote | our | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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