Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 53
Your brothers can be released," said she, "if you have only courage and perseverance.
Who acts: you · What happens: release, say, have · To what, where: brothers, courage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 released | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 released | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 released | aux:pass |
| 5 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 released | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 released | conj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 she | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 courage | advmod |
| 16 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 perseverance | cc |
| 18 | perseverance | perseverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 courage | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | can · passive | Your brothers | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | courage and perseverance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient |
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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