Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 77

Now have we revenged the dead," said they, and flew back into the white bells of the jasmine flowers.

Who acts: we, spears · What happens: revenge, say, fly back · To what, where: dead, white bells · 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, spears), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 revenged	advmod
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 revenged	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 revenged	nsubj
4	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dead	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 revenged	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 revenged	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 revenged	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flew	cc
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 flew	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 bells	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bells	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bells	amod
18	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flew	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 flowers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flowers	det
21	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flowers	compound
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bells	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	revenge	present · perfect	we	the dead		now	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	spears = spear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly back in a quote	past	spears = spear not said here		the white bells of the jasmine flowers		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bell=Destination

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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