Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 73
Help! help!" exclaimed the young ladies, but there was no danger, for they quickly extinguished the fire.
Who acts: Help help, danger, ladies · What happens: exclaim, be, extinguish · To what, where: young ladies, fire
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 (Help help, danger, ladies), 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 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | compound |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladies | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ladies | amod |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 danger | det |
| 15 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 extinguished | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 extinguished | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 extinguished | nsubj |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 extinguished | advmod |
| 20 | extinguished | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 extinguished | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Help help | the young ladies | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | no danger | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | extinguish in a quote | past | ladies = lady | the fire | quickly property | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
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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