Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 41
"Yes, do so," said they; and they laughed, and rode on.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: do, say, laugh, ride on · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laughed | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laughed | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rode | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | brothers = brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | brothers = brother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride on | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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