Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 187
"'Stay with us,' said some of the older ones.
What happens: stay, say · To what, where: some · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Stay | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stay | punct |
| 3 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Stay | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stay | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stay | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | some | tree rules |
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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