Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 19

"But we must part," said the young man; "your brother does not like our engagement, and therefore he sends me so far away on business, over mountains and seas.

Who acts: we, young man, brother, our · What happens: part, say, not like, send, engage · To what, where: engagement, young man, mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, young man, brother, our), 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	_	5 part	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 part	cc
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 part	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 part	aux
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 like	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 engagement	nmod:poss
20	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 like	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sends	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sends	cc
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	25 sends	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sends	nsubj
25	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sends	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 away	advmod
29	away	away	ADV	_	25 sends	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 business	case
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 away	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mountains	punct
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 mountains	case
34	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sends	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 seas	cc
36	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 mountains	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	part in a quote	must	we				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not like in a quote	present · do-support	your brother	our engagement			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot engagement=Theme
4	send in a quote	present	brother	the young man = man	mountains and seas	away, therefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	engage in a quote		our				nom engagement «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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