Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 122

"Fly away, ye birds! fly away to see, and then come back and tell me," said the Dryad.

Who acts: ye, Dryad · What happens: fly away, bird, see, come back, tell, say · To what, where: Dryad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Dryad), 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	_	2 Fly	punct
2	Fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Fly	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 birds	punct
5	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 birds	nsubj
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Fly	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Fly	parataxis
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 fly	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fly	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	ccomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Dryad	det
24	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly away in a quote	infinitive				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bird in a quote		ye				tree rules
3	fly away in a quote	infinitive				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come back in a quote	infinitive			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the Dryad = dryad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	say speech: express	past	the Dryad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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