Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 188
"'Carry on your sport with mortals,' said the others.
Who acts: your · What happens: carry, say, sport · To what, where: sport, others · 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: who acts (your), 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 Carry | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Carry | punct |
| 3 | Carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sport | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sport | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Carry | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mortals | case |
| 8 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Carry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Carry | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Carry | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | infinitive | your sport | with mortals | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sport in a quote | your | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=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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