Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 71

We know it," said each little spirit in the flowers, "we know it, for have we not sprung from the eyes and lips of the murdered one.

Who acts: We · What happens: know, say, not spring, murder · To what, where: part, little spirit, flowers, we, eyes · 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), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 know	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 spirit	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spirit	amod
9	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flowers	det
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sprung	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sprung	aux
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sprung	nsubj:pass
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 sprung	advmod
23	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 know	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 eyes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 eyes	det
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sprung	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lips	cc
28	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eyes	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 one	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 one	det
31	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lips	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	We	part		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	We not said here	each little spirit	the flowers	tree rules
3	know	present	we	part		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	not spring	present · perfect · passive		we	the eyes and lips of the murdered one	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	murder	participle				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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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