Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 149

The raven sat there still, or it might be his son, which is the same thing, and he said to them,--

Who acts: raven, town, son · What happens: sit, be, say · To what, where: son, same thing, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, town, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 son	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 son	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 son	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 son	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 thing	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	the raven			there	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	might	town	raven's son and the same thing				tree rules
3	is a	present	raven's son and the same thing	the same thing				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	raven		things = thing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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