Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 95

"We will hear them in the winter," said the old goblin, "and also about the fir and the birch-trees, and the ghost stories, and of the tingling frost.

Who acts: We, old goblin · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: stories · 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 (We, old goblin), 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 hear	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goblin	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 goblin	amod
14	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 goblin	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 goblin	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fir	cc
18	also	also	ADV	_	21 fir	advmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 fir	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fir	det
21	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goblin	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 trees	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
24	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trees	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 birch	punct
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 goblin	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stories	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stories	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stories	det
30	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stories	compound
31	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 goblin	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 frost	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 frost	cc
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 frost	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 frost	det
36	tingling	tingling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 frost	amod
37	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	future	We	stories = story			winter		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the old goblin and the fir and the birch trees and the ghost stories						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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