Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 82

"The children are all out of school, and the schoolmaster was the last of all," said the children.

Who acts: children, schoolmaster, school · What happens: be, say · To what, where: school, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, schoolmaster, school), 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	_	8 school	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 school	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 school	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 school	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 school	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 last	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 schoolmaster	det
12	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 last	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 last	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 last	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 school	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 last	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the children		school	all property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	the schoolmaster			of all; last property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	school	the children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=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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