Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 36
"Don't go home, Peter," cried the street boys. "
Who acts: you, street boys · What happens: not go, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, street boys), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peter | punct |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 12 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boys | compound |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | Peter vocative; home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the street boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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