Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 21

But she repeated the words of the song, "I will drive them across the islands to the deep sea; but before evening came the roebuck was slain, and before the night the hunted stag was dead."

Who acts: mother, roebuck, hunted stag · What happens: repeat, drive, come, be, hunt, word · To what, where: words, islands, song

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 (mother, roebuck, hunted stag), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 repeated	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 repeated	nsubj
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeated	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 song	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drive	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 drive	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 drive	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drive	aux
13	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 repeated	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drive	obj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 islands	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 islands	det
17	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drive	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drive	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 evening	case
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 repeated	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roebuck	det
28	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slain	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 slain	cop
30	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 came	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dead	cc
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 night	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dead	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stag	det
37	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 stag	amod
38	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dead	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 repeated	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 repeated	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	mother	the words of the song				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	drive in a quote	future	my mother = mother	words = word	the islands		to the deep sea	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across island=Destination to sea=Initial_Location
3	come in a quote	past	mother not said here			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	the roebuck				slain property	tree rules
5	hunt in a quote	participle						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	past	the hunted stag			night	dead property	tree rules
7	word			the song				nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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