Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 110

"The cock is crowing," said the old elfin maiden who acted as housekeeper; "now we must close the shutters, that the sun may not scorch us."

Who acts: cock, old elfin maiden, we, sun · What happens: crow, say, act, close, not scorch · To what, where: shutters, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, old elfin maiden, we, sun), 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 crowing	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cock	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crowing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crowing	aux
5	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crowing	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 crowing	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maiden	amod
11	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maiden	compound
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 acted	nsubj
14	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 maiden	acl:relcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 housekeeper	case
16	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acted	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 close	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 close	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 close	aux
22	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shutters	det
24	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 close	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 scorch	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 scorch	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 scorch	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 scorch	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 scorch	advmod
31	scorch	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 close	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 scorch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crow in a quote	present · progressive	the cock				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old elfin maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	act	past	the old elfin maiden			as housekeeper	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as housekeeper=Attribute
4	close in a quote	must	we	the shutters	now		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient
5	not scorch in a quote	may	the sun	us			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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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