Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 40
"Follow me," said the dead woman. "
Who acts: you, dead woman · What happens: follow, say · To what, where: dead woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dead woman), 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 | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 2 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Follow | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the dead woman = woman | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dead woman | 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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