Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 54
"Farewell, farewell," whispered the little elf.
Who acts: little elf · What happens: whisper
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 (little elf), 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 | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 whispered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 whispered | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 farewell | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elf | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elf | amod |
| 10 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the little elf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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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