Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 33
Our master first," said the gingerbread pair, making room for Knud and Joanna.
Who acts: master · What happens: say, make · To what, where: gingerbread pair, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 master | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pair | det |
| 8 | gingerbread | gingerbread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pair | amod |
| 9 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Knud | case |
| 14 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 room | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Joanna | cc |
| 16 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Knud | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Our master | the gingerbread pair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pair=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | Our master not said here | room | for Knud and Joanna | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for knud=Beneficiary |
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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