Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 13
"Yes, then," you say; "but in our own days?"
Who acts: you · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 say | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 say | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 days | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 days | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 days | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 days | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | then; day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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