Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 39
"That depends upon wind and weather," said the elf king; "they travel economically.
Who acts: That, elf king, boys · What happens: depend, say, travel · 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 (That, elf king, boys), 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 | _ | 3 depends | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 wind | case |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 depends | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 weather | cc |
| 7 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wind | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 depends | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 12 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 travel | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 travel | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 travel | nsubj |
| 17 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 depends | conj |
| 18 | economically | economically | ADV | _ | 17 travel | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend in a quote | present | That | upon wind and weather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the elf king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | present | boys = boy | economically property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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