Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 55

They declared that we had entertained robbers, and that my father had acted as their guide, and therefore we must now go with them.

Who acts: soldiers, we, father · What happens: declare, have, act, go · To what, where: entertained robbers · 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 (soldiers, we, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	ccomp
6	entertained	entertained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 robbers	amod
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 acted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 acted	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 acted	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 acted	aux
14	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 declared	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 guide	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 guide	nmod:poss
17	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declared	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	soldiers = soldier				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	we	entertained robbers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Patient
3	act	past · perfect	my father			as soldiers's guide	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as guide=Attribute
4	go	must	we		now	with soldiers = soldier; therefore property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary

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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