Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 17
I will drive them away across the islands!' cried the young roebuck; 'I will drive them away across the islands into the deep sea.'
Who acts: I · What happens: drive away, cry · To what, where: dogs, islands, young roebuck
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 drive | aux |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drive | advmod |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drive | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drive | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roebuck | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roebuck | amod |
| 14 | roebuck | roebuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 drive | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 drive | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 drive | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 drive | aux |
| 19 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drive | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drive | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 drive | advmod |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 islands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 islands | det |
| 24 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drive | obl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 27 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sea | amod |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drive | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | future | I | dogs = dog | the islands | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme across island=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | I not said here | the young roebuck | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roebuck=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drive away | future | I | dogs = dog | the islands | into the deep sea; away property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across island=Destination into sea=Initial_Location |
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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