Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 120
We all three offered a silent prayer, and then she said to us, "Will you be friends in life and in death?"
Who acts: We, countenance, you · What happens: offer, say, be · To what, where: silent prayer, us, friends, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, countenance, you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 three | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prayer | det |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prayer | amod |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 17 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 friends | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 friends | cop |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friends | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 death | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friends | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | We | a silent prayer | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | countenance | us | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | you | friends and death | life | tree rules |
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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