Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 16

And the stag answered, 'The Turk has come to our city; he has wild dogs for the chase, a goodly pack.' '

Who acts: stag, Turk · What happens: answer, come, have · To what, where: city, wild dogs

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 (stag, Turk), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stag	det
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Turk	det
8	Turk	Turk	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 answered	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 city	nmod:poss
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dogs	amod
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 has	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 chase	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chase	det
21	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dogs	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pack	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pack	det
24	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pack	amod
25	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dogs	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the stag				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present · perfect	the Turk		our city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	have	present	stag	wild dogs and a goodly pack		for the chase	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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