Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 86
"The sixth comes before the seventh," said the elf king, for he could reckon; but the sixth would not come forward.
Who acts: sixth, elf king · What happens: come, say, reckon, not come forward · To what, where: seventh, elf king · 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 (sixth, elf king), 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 | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sixth | det |
| 3 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 seventh | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seventh | det |
| 7 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 18 reckon | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 reckon | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reckon | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reckon | aux |
| 18 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 king | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sixth | det |
| 22 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 come | advmod |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 26 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | the sixth | the seventh | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before seventh=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the elf king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | reckon | could | sixth | the elf king not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not come forward | would | the sixth | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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