Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 133
"Many thanks to you then," replied the rats, and they marched off.
Who acts: Many thanks, thanks · What happens: reply, march off · To what, where: rats
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many thanks, thanks), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanks | amod |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thanks | nmod |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 then | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rats | det |
| 11 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 marched | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marched | nsubj |
| 15 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 marched | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Many thanks to you | the rats | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rat=Topic | |||
| 2 | march off | past | thanks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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