Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 20
"Croak," said the night-raven as he flew away with the invitations.
Who acts: Croak · What happens: say, fly away · To what, where: night raven · 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 (Croak), 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 | _ | 2 Croak | punct |
| 2 | Croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Croak | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Croak | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 raven | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raven | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 9 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 flew | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 invitations | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 invitations | det |
| 16 | invitations | invitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Croak | the night raven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past | Croak | with the invitations; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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